The Federal Trade Committee of the Trump Administration has removed the four -year commercial guidance blogs from Tuesday morning, including important consumer protection information related to artificial intelligence and the agency’s intestinal privacy claims during the era of former President Lin Khan against companies such as Amazon and Microsoft. More than 300 blogs have been removed.
On FTC, the page hosts all the agency Blogs and guidelines related to business It no longer includes any information published during the administration of former President Joe Biden, the current and former FTC staff, who spoke under his identity for fear of revenge, told WIRE. These blogs included advice from FTC on how large technology companies avoid violating consumer protection laws.
One blog is now deleted entitled “Hey, Alexa! What do you do in my home?” He explains how, according to complaints from FTC, and Amazon and its safety camera products that have been allegedly benefited from consumer data sensitive to training the e -commerce giant algorithms. (Amazon did not approve the FTC claims.) It also provided instructions to companies that manage similar products and services. Another job entitled “A 20 million dollar settlement from FTC takes an illegal set of Microsoft Xbox for children’s data: a games change to comply COPPA” Technology companies on how to adhere to the online privacy protection law for children using the Microsoft 2023 settlement as an example. The settlement was followed FTC allegations that Microsoft got the data Of children who use Xbox systems without the approval of their parents or guardians.
“With regard to the message to the industry about what our compliance expectations are, which is in some respects the most important part of the enforceable procedures, they are trying to erase that date,” tells a familiar source Wire.
Another FTC blog entitled “Test Test: Amnesty International and Consumer Trust Engineering” It determines how companies can avoid creating Chatbots that violate the FTC law rules against unfair or deceptive products. This blog He won an award in 2023 For “excellent descriptions of artificial intelligence.”
The Trump administration has received wide support from the technology industry. Great technology companies such as Amazon and Meta as well as technology entrepreneurs such as the CEO of Openai Sam Altman, all donated the Trump installation box. Other Silicon Valley leaders, such as Elon Musk and David Sacks, formally advise management. The Ministry of Governmental efficiency in Musk (DOGE) employs two technology technology in Musk. Indeed, federal agencies, such as the Public Services Department, began to offer AI products such as GSAI, which is a general government scratch.
FTC did not immediately respond to the WIRED comment.
The removal of blogs raises serious concerns about compliance under the Federal Records Law and the Open Government Data Law, a former Federal Trade Committee official says. During the Biden administration, the FTC leadership will put “warning” signs over the general decisions of previous departments that no longer agree with it, for fear that the removal will violate the law.
Since President Donald Trump Andrew Ferguson has determined to replace Khan as Chairman of the Federal Trade Committee in January, the Republican organizer has pledged to benefit from his authority to practice large technology companies. Unlike Khan, Ferguson’s criticism focuses on the allegations of the old Republican Party that social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, focused on the Internet. Before choosing as a president, Ferguson Trump told his vision of the agency also included the Biden era regulations on artificial intelligence and the stricter integration standards, The New York Times reported in December.
In an interview with CNBC last weekFerguson has argued that moderate content can be equivalent to a violation of anti -monopoly. “If companies are of the quality of their products by expelling people because they hold certain views, this may be an indication of a problem in the competition,” he said.
The sources speaking with WIRED on Tuesday claimed that technology companies are the only groups that benefit from the removal of these blogs.
“They are talking about a big game about censorship. But at the end of the day, the thing that really strikes these companies is the data they can collect, and how they can use these data, and whether they can train artificial intelligence models on these data, and if this administration plans to take the foot from the gas there while escalating its work on control,” the source is familiar advantages. “I think this change will be very big technology.”
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