Buried beneath the endless feeds and attention-grabbing videos of the modern internet is a network of data harvesting and sale that’s far more vast than most people realize, and it desperately needs regulation.  That’s the conclusion the FTC made after spending nearly four years poring over internal data from nine major social media and video streaming corporations in the US. These internet behemoths are collecting vast amounts of data, both on and off their services, and the handling of such data is “woefully inadequate,”

Source: The Register