A new government report investigates how the world's biggest social media platforms are collecting and using your personal information. NBC News' Tom Costello reports.

Almost two minute video report at the link:

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/vi ... 9747909809

Rats. Now the Feds have my Six Hour Red Sauce recipe.

CDF

Talk about Too Much Data...

Federal Trade Commission issued the report. The got responses from social media sites:

Amazon.com, Inc., which owns the gaming platform Twitch; Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms, Inc.); YouTube LLC; Twitter, Inc. (now X Corp.); Snap Inc.; ByteDance Ltd., which owns the video-sharing platform TikTok; Discord Inc.; Reddit, Inc.; and WhatsApp Inc.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/pr ... rveillance

They are privately owned platforms and make their own rules. Kids easily supply personal data and all of it is packaged and sold. Nothing is free, all of our personal data is sold and bought, the federal government even buys personal data.

Last year Congress passed and Biden signed a bill that requires ByteDance, Ltd, headquartered in Beijing, China to sell TikTok or it will be banned in the US. The concern is that ByteDance is collecting personal data on Americans. ByteDance challenged the federal law and it's now before the US Court of Appeals in DC.