Trouble is brewing for Digital Service Method (DSA), a landmark European law, managing large-scale technology platform. On August 21, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a stern letter to many tech giants, including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. The subject of the letter: If the European Digital Services Act endangers freedom of speech, the most important thing is the safety of American citizens.
The letter’s opening – signed by FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, a prominent reference to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, namely, Freedom of Speech: “Online platforms have become the core of public debate, and in recent years, Americans have been angry and sharing with Americans in recent years. But the last government has actively worked to encourage such censorship.”
Trump administration lunge
The Trump administration intends to reverse the path, and it is in this direction that attacks on “foreign powers”, the EU and the UK, and especially the Digital Services Act and the Online Security Act have begun. The letter also indirectly references to European regulation of personal data protection, whose measures “aim to implement censorship and weaken end-to-end encryption”, which is due to weakening American freedom.
Privacy and end-to-end encryption: Problems on the table
In the letter, the Antitrust Administration specifically requested 13 companies to report “how they intend to comply with incorrect international regulatory requirements” (the deadline for arranging the meeting is scheduled for August 28) and recalled their “obligation to U.S. consumers under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which may violate or practice or practice or impose a safe market to distort or impose a safe market.
The FTC calls on large tech companies to order: “Companies that promise their services to be secure or encrypted, but where appropriate, consumers who can be deceived to reasonably expect such privacy are precisely in terms of security, especially in the case of end-to-end encryption, especially in the case of end-to-end encryption. Furthermore, “some situations may require the use of end-to-end encryption, and the failure to implement such measures may constitute unfair practice”. The document states that weakening of encryption or other security measures to comply with foreign government laws or requirements may violate Article 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
What happens in the event of disputes and interference
“I will not hesitate to enforce the law if Americans are reviewed as required by foreign powers or to weaken privacy and communication security.”
Guido Scorza, a member of the Italian Data Protection Agency, told Wired that Guido Scorza, a member of the Italian Data Protection Agency, told Wired: “In a society where we live, overlap and interference between different legal systems is natural. As long as in the opposite direction, those between European privacy legislation and the famous U.S. Cloud Act, Guido Scorza, told Wired. Scorza believes that if there is a significant difference, “the corrective measures will be determined by the U.S. government and the European Commission that ensure sovereignty, including each country, will be guaranteed.” ”
This article first appeared in Wired Italy and has been translated from Italian.
