Posted on 08/21/2025 10:30:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
'Companies might be censoring Americans in response to the laws, demands, or expected demands of foreign powers.'
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission is firing a warning shot at top tech companies, The Daily Wire can exclusively report, reminding major companies in a series of letters of their obligation to protect American privacy even under pressure from foreign governments.
“President Trump has put a swift end to the weaponization of the federal government against Americans and their freedoms, but foreign governments present emerging and ongoing threats to the free exchange of ideas,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson wrote on Monday in letters first obtained by The Daily Wire.
“Companies might be censoring Americans in response to the laws, demands, or expected demands of foreign powers,” Ferguson states. “And the anti-encryption policies of foreign governments might be causing companies to weaken data security measures and other technological means for Americans to vindicate their right to anonymous and private speech. Specifically, there have been numerous recent attempts by foreign governments to pressure your company to censor content or degrade security for users of your services.”
Letters were sent individually to tech giants, including Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple, as well as eight other companies in the messaging, social media, and cloud storage or web hosting spaces.
The FTC chairman reminded the companies that they have “independent obligations to American consumers” under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, prohibiting “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.” A foreign government’s laws will not be taken as a valid excuse to break that obligation, the letter makes clear.
“As the nation’s consumer protection agency, the FTC has taken action for over two decades against companies that fail to keep their data security or privacy promises to consumers,” he says...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
How many are actually domiciled here?
How about deleting what they have on us now. 😂👍
That’s nice. Now how about the same for the NSA etc?
^^This^^
No mention of Palantir here?
Today Facebook asked friend if mine to do a facial video of herself in order to log in.. Also, hearing flyers are now being requested to pose for facial videos. But can refuse.
I usually allow the photo - because I will have been under surveillance from the moment I enter the airport property, park my truck in the garage, enter the terminal, everywhere I walk inside it, and probably while I’m sitting on the plane.
They probably know I like my coffee black, what stores I usually go into (but never buy anything), and that I spend most of my time while waiting reading Freerepublic and adding dumb comments like this one.
Why Apple? Their encryption is so strict that not even Apple has a key to break it.
Yeah, probably true
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.