Topic: FTC
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plays a significant role in shaping policies that impact privacy, surveillance, and free speech. Recent actions and proposed legislation highlight a troubling trend towards increased regulation that often prioritizes age verification and data collection over individual rights. These measures risk creating a framework for censorship and mass surveillance, undermining the principles of free expression and personal privacy.
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Washington Wants a Government Label on AI Speech
The pitch is transparency. The catch is that the government gets to write the words you’re forced to say.
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Senator Blackburn Demands Kik Verify the Age of Every User
It’s the newest entry in a Senate catalog of child-safety bills that double as the scaffolding for a digital-ID internet.
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Days Away: The TAKE IT DOWN Act Creates a Censorship Mechanism With No Safeguards
The law Congress unanimously passed to fight revenge porn also handed anyone with an internet connection and a grudge a…
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US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
Buried in the definitions is a mandate that reaches every laptop, console, smart TV, and car infotainment system in the…
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FTC Settlement: Ad Agencies Agree to Stop “Brand Safety” Collusion to Defund Media Outlets
The agencies literally quoted Fight Club rules to keep their $81 billion blacklist quiet.
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OkCupid Gave 3M Users’ Photos to AI Firm, FTC Says
The regulatory price for handing three million people’s dating photos to a facial recognition startup turned out to be a…
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The Fourth Amendment Has a VPN Problem
It’s the kind of question that should have been settled years ago, and the silence tells you why it wasn’t.
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FTC Warns Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe Over Political Debanking
The FTC just told the four companies that move America’s money to stop picking sides, without actually doing anything about…
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Blackburn’s TRUMP AMERICA AI Act Repeals Section 230, Expands AI Liability, and Mandates Age Verification
The bill is framed as pro-innovation, but its actual architecture makes self-censorship and digital ID the only rational business decision…
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FTC Says Companies Can Collect Kids’ Personal Data, As Long As It’s Called “Age Verification”
The agency charged with enforcing the law that restricts children’s data collection just carved out an exception large enough to…
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Meta Considers Timed Face Recognition Launch to Exploit Distracted Society
Meta’s own document treats the civil liberties backlash not as a reason to reconsider, but as a calendar event to…
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40 State Attorneys General Want To Tie Online Access to ID
The bill’s supporters call it child protection; its architecture looks more like a national ID system for the internet.