US FTC slams Meta, TikTok and Twitch for ‘woefully inadequate’ data policies

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a report released on Thursday. Discord, a communications platform, said the report lumps very different business models into one category, and that it did not offer advertising at the time the study was conducted..