Meta, X Surveillance Concerns Prompt Calls for FTC Probe (1)

Civil liberties groups urged the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to investigate Meta Platforms Inc. and X Corp., formerly known at Twitter, for allegedly violating federal supervisory agreements and their own policies to protect users against surveillance companies scooping up their data.

A letter to the FTC says that despite the platforms’ promises, a bevy of social media monitoring companies have contracted with government agencies in exchange for access to Meta and X’s user data.

“We should be able to log onto social media without shady companies ransacking our profiles and packaging our private lives into police dossiers,” Jacob Snow, ...