President Joe Biden’s new competition executive order could make it more difficult for Big Tech platforms such as Facebook and Google to collect personal information and data from their users.
The order, which will be signed on Friday, pushes the Federal Trade Commission to create new rules on the surveillance and the accumulation of user data because the business models of many tech companies have “depended on the accumulation of extraordinary amounts of sensitive personal information and related data,” the White House said in a press release on Friday.
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