Aside from failing to remove data from former users, most of the said platforms also had no safeguards for data belonging to youths ages 13 to 17, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

A recent study by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has unveiled alarming practices of mass surveillance employed by major social media and internet companies. The report, published following four years of investigation,

The FTC just published results of a sweeping study of social media sites that has been going on for four years. The organization said that many social media sites and streaming services engage in “vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize their personal information.