US government Protects Tech Companies And Removes Critical Reports
The US trade authority FTC has deleted more than 300 blog posts from its website. In these, important information on consumer protection, artificial intelligence and data protection lawsuits against large technology companies were provided.
Calculation on the FTC website
The distance took place on Tuesday morning and affects all the blog entries published during the term of office by President Joe Biden. According to the current and former FTC employees who anonymously with the magazine Wired Languages, among other things, dealt with guidelines for large tech companies to avoid violations of consumer protection laws.
Among the remote articles was an article entitled §hey, Alexa! What are you doing with my data? §, who dealt with allegations against Amazon and its ring safety cameras. Another deleted article addressed an FTC agreement with Microsoft, which the company obliged to pay $20 million due to the illegal collection of children’s data on Xbox consoles.
A blog post entitled “The Luring Test: Ai and the Engineering of Consumer Trust”, which gave companies, gave instructions on how to develop AI-based chatbots without violating consumer protection laws. This article won an award for outstanding explanations on artificial intelligence in 2023.
The removal of the blogs has raised concerns about compliance with the Federal Record Act and the Open Government Data Act. During the bid administration, previously controversial decisions of previous governments were given warnings in order to avoid legal problems. However, these were not completely removed even if the new administration launched other regulations.
Censorship in pure form
According to sources that spoke to WIRED, large technology companies primarily benefit from the removal of the blogs. Critics accuse the government to accuse others of loudly, which are then implemented themselves. So it is repeatedly claimed that platform operators and other states are being massively censored, while their own authorities have been employed for weeks with the deletion of numerous non-desired content.
Since the appointment of Andrew Ferguson as the new FTC chairman, he has announced that it has increasingly action against technology companies. Unlike his predecessor Lina Khan, Ferguson focuses on the accusation that platforms such as Facebook and Instagram supposedly suppress conservative voices. He has also signaled that he wants to undo bidding era regulations on artificial intelligence and stricter fusion controls.
