FTC report confirms social-media users’ privacy compromised [Video]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — We all know that person who swore up and down their phone and social-media apps are listening to them. 

The key take away, said Carlos Rubio-Medrano, is that the government has finally recognized this as a major problem.

The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi asst. professor of Computer Science who specializes in cyber security said social media apps, and even video streaming companies, are building a fingerprint on everything you like, view, and search, in what the FTC is calling a “vast surveillance,” putting your privacy at risk.

“The big danger is the loss of privacy, right? They certainly know what kind of things we are doing on the web,” he said.

Privacy-invasive tracking technology he said can lead to …