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Agency homing in on social media companies' data collection

by Marcy Gordon
| December 15, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are ordering Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok’s parent and five other social media companies to provide detailed information on how they collect and use consumers’ personal data and how their practices affect children and teens.

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