{"id":1902820,"date":"2023-03-22T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-to-prevent-spying-by-smart-fridges-advances-to-senate-floor\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:27:38","slug":"bill-to-prevent-spying-by-smart-fridges-advances-to-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-to-prevent-spying-by-smart-fridges-advances-to-senate-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to prevent spying by smart fridges advances to Senate floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-to-prevent-spying-by-smart-fridges-advances-to-senate-floor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1902820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>The US Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee have given their approval for the Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act. If passed, the Federal Trade Commission would have the power to force designers of internet-connected devices, such as refrigerators and televisions, to disclose if recording hardware is present in the device. The bill will not affect devices such as smartphones, laptops, or devices for which recording is expected.<\/p>\n<p>The next step for the bill is a vote by the Senate, which will then send the bill to the White House to become law. The House of Representatives passed the bill last month.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation has received strong support from both political parties. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that \u201cAs the number of smart devices found in homes steadily climbs, consumers deserve greater transparency about how these devices work and how they impact privacy\u201d while Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) added that \u201cMost consumers expect their refrigerators to keep the milk cold, not come equipped with a camera or microphone to record their personal and private family discussions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill is a response to warnings from security experts about the danger of smart devices being used to spy on users without their consent. Smart televisions and toys have been found to have spied on owners without their knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8216;Read More From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/senate-markup-smart-devices\">&#8220;Bill to prevent spying by smart fridges advances to Senate floor&#8221;<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation to ban spying by refrigerators is just a vote by the full Senate away from becoming law. The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Wednesday approved the Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act, which would give the Federal Trade Commission the power to force the designers of internet-connected devices to disclose whether recording<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1902821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[6173,5426,22464,5495,3740,8319,9541],"class_list":["post-1902820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-advances","tag-floor","tag-fridges","tag-prevent","tag-senate","tag-smart","tag-spying"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1902821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}