The Federal Trump Administration Trade Committee removed four years of blogs regarding business counseling on Tuesday morning, including significant information on consumer protection related to artificial intelligence and groundbreaking agency processes based on the former chairman of the Khan rope against companies such as Amazon and Microsoft. Over 300 blogs have been deleted.
On the FTC website, the website leading all agencies Blogs and tips related to business It no longer contains any information published during the administration of former President Joe Biden, the current and former FTC employees who spoke anonymous for fear of retaliation, Tell Wired. These blogs contained FTC tips on how gigantic technology companies can avoid violation of consumer protection regulations.
One now deleted blog, entitled “Hey, Alexa! What are you doing with my data?” He explains how, in accordance with two FTC complaints, Amazon and his products of security cameras, the Ring allegedly used sensitive consumer data to train the E -commerce giant algorithms. (Amazon did not agree with FTC claims) He also provided guidelines for companies serving similar products and services. Another post entitled “Settlement worth $ 20 million in Microsoft Xbox illegal data collection for children: game changer in the field of COPPA’s compliance” Instructs technology companies on how to comply with the Privacy Act for children, using as an example with Microsoft Settlement 2023. The settlement took place FTC allegations that Microsoft obtained data from children using Xbox systems without the consent of parents or guardians.
“As for the message for the industry about our expectations regarding compliance, which in a sense is the most important part of enforcement activities, they are simply trying to erase those from history,” says a familiar source.
Another deleted FTC blog entitled “Attraction test: AI and consumer trust engineering” It presents how companies can avoid creating chatbots that violate the principles of the FTC act against dishonest or misleading products. This blog won the award in 2023 “Excellent descriptions of artificial intelligence.”
The Trump administration received wide support from the technology industry. Vast technology companies, such as Amazon and Meta, as well as technological entrepreneurs, such as the general director of OPENAI, Altman himself, all transferred to the Trump inaugural fund. Other Silicon Valley leaders, such as Elon Musk and David Sacks, officially advise administration. The so -called Government Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employs technologists from Musk technology companies. And already federal agencies, such as the administration of general services, began to introduce AI products such as GSAI, and government chatbot.
FTC did not immediately answer to the request for comment from Wired.
Removing blogs raises earnest concerns about compliance in accordance with the Act on federal acts and the Act on open government data, says one former FTC official. During the Biden administration, FTC management would place “warning” labels above public decisions of previous administrations, with which it has not agreed, as the source said, fearing that removing the law.
From the time when President Donald Trump appointed Andrew Ferguson to replace Khan as chairman of FTC in January, the republican regulatory body has to employ his authority to follow gigantic technology companies. However, unlike Khan, critic Ferguson focuses on long -term allegations of the Republican party that social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, conservative censorship. Before he was elected chairman, Ferguson told Trump that his vision of the agency also included the withdrawal of regulations from the time of Biden on artificial intelligence and more hard connection standards, New York Times announced in December.
In an interview with CNBC last weekFerguson argued that content moderation may match the antitrust violation. “If companies degrade their product quality by throwing people because they have special views, it may indicate that there is a problem with competition,” he said.
Sources talking to Wired on Tuesday claimed that technology companies are the only groups that employ the removal of these blogs.
“They talk about a large game about censorship. But at the end of the day, the thing that really goes to these companies is what can collect data, how they can use this data, regardless of whether they can train their AI models on this data and whether this administration plans to remove the foot from gas there, while increasing work on the cedejora”, a familiar source. “I think this great technology change would be very happy.”