The Federal Trade Commission has removed all blog content from President Biden's tenure, impacting over 300 posts that informed businesses about consumer-protection laws, including AI and data use. Former and current FTC officials criticized this erasure, suggesting it undermines industry compliance expectations. With Andrew Ferguson at the helm, the FTC's direction appears to focus on claims of censorship in tech while raising questions about the future of data regulation, with industry implications at stake.
In terms of the message to industry on what our compliance expectations were, which is in some ways the most important part of enforcement action, they are trying to just erase those from history.
They are talking a big game on censorship; but at the end of the day, the thing that really hits these companies' bottom line is what data they can collect, how they can use that data, and whether they can train their AI models on that data.
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