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US FTC Seeks Data on How Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Others Use Personal Data

US FTC Seeks Data on How Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Others Use Personal Data
A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard on March 25, 2020. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
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12/15/2020|Updated: 12/16/2020

WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission is seeking information from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media and video streaming companies about how they use the personal information that they collect on their users, the U.S. agency said on Dec. 14.

In addition to Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., the orders requesting data were sent to Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp, Amazon.com Inc., China’s ByteDance unit TikTok, Discord Inc., Reddit Inc., Snap Inc., and Google subsidiary YouTube LLC.

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