A scathing new report takes aim directly at Big Tech and alleged violations of privacy.
Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission , during a Bloomberg News interview in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Sept 26, 2023.Social media platforms are engaging in “vast surveillance” of people online and failing to protect children, according to afrom the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. And if you thought Big Tech was serious about calling for FTC Chair Lina Khan to be fired before, just wait until this report properly trickles through Silicon Valley today.
“In fact, the Companies collected so much data that in response to the Commission’s questions, they often could not even identify all the data points they collected or all of the third partiesThe report also warns that AI is complicating the picture even more, with companies feeding data into their artificial intelligence training without consistent approaches to monitoring or testing standards.
But, again, this report is likely to only increase the calls for Khan to be fired, which have grown louder in the business community in recent months. Gizmodo reached out to all nine of the tech companies mentioned by name in the new report but only Discord and Google responded immediately while Meta, which owns Facebook and WhatsApp, declined to comment.
Discord sent a more robust statement and believes its business is very different from the other eight companies mentioned in the report.
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