The Trump Federal Trade Commission deleted business guidelines worth four years in the third morning, including important consumer protection information related to artificial intelligence and privacy lawsuits of former Lina Khan President against companies like Amazon and Microsoft. More than 300 blogs were deleted.
On FTC's website, all agencies storage page Blog and instructions related to business No longer includes any information published during the government of former President Joe Biden, existing employees and former FTC staff, who spoke under anonymous for fear of revenge, told Wired. These blogs have advice from FTC on how large technology companies can avoid violations of consumer protection laws.
A blog has been deleted, titled “Hey, Alexa! What are you doing with my data?” Explain how, according to FTC complaints, Amazon and its security camera products are said to have taken advantage of sensitive consumer data to train the algorithms of the e -commerce giant. (Amazon does not agree with FTC requirements.) It also provides instructions for companies that operate similar products and services. Another article has a title Solving FTC $ 20 million FTC solving Microsoft Xbox Collection of illegal children's data: A person changing the game to comply with Coppa Guide technology companies on how to comply with children's online privacy protection laws by using the Microsoft 2023 settlement agreement as an example. The settlements followed FTC allegations that Microsoft obtained data From children using the Xbox system without the consent of parents or guardians.
In terms of the message for the industry about what our compliance expectations are, in a way, the most important part of the execution action, they are trying to erase people from history, a familiar source telling Wired.
A FTC blog was eliminated with a title “Attractive test: AI and consumer technology Outline how businesses can avoid creating chatbots that violate the rules of the FTC Act for unfair or fraudulent products. This blog Won a prize in 2023 For great descriptions of artificial intelligence.
The Trump administration has received wide support from the technology industry. Large technology companies such as Amazon and Meta as well as technology entrepreneurs such as Openai Sam Altman CEO, all donated Trump's inauguration fund. Other Silicon Valley leaders, such as Elon Musk and David Sacks, are officially advising the government. The so -called Musk's Efficiency (DOGE) uses Musk's technology companies from technology companies. And already, the federal agencies such as the general service management agency have Start launching AI products like GSAIA common purpose of the chatbot government.
FTC did not answer immediately asking for comments from Wired.
Eliminating blogs increases serious concerns under the Federal Documents and the Government Data Act, a former FTC official told Wired. During the period when the Biden government, FTC leaders will put online warning labels on the public's public decisions that they no longer agree, the source said, fearing that the elimination would violate the law.
Since President Donald Trump appointed Andrew Ferguson to replace Khan as the FTC president in January, the Republican's management agency has announced he will take advantage of his power to pursue large technology companies. However, unlike Khan, the critic center of Ferguson around the Republican Party Long -term allegations that social media platformsLike Facebook and Instagram, online conservative speech. Before being chosen as president, Ferguson told Trump that his vision for this agency also included the regulations of Biden's period of artificial intelligence and more difficult merger standards, New York Times was reported in December.
In an interview with CNBC last weekFerguson argues that censorship of content may be equivalent to anti -monopoly violations. “If companies are reducing their product quality by booting people because they keep the specific point of view, it may be a sign that there is a competitive issue, he said.
Sources talk to Wired on Tuesday claim that technology companies are the only group that benefits from removing these blogs.
They are talking about a big game about censorship. But at the end of the day, what really achieved the key point of these companies is that the data they can collect, the way they can use that data, whether they can train their AI models on that data and if the government is planning to remove their feet from the gas. I think it is a great technological change will be very satisfied.