{"id":125780,"date":"2026-03-17T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.einnews.com\/article\/900025805"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:54:49","slug":"us-committee-demands-big-tech-share-private-comms-with-eu-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/us-committee-demands-big-tech-share-private-comms-with-eu-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"US committee demands Big Tech share private comms with EU officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-opt-id=758893364  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17\/GettyImages-2264746920-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The EU law governing online content at the biggest tech companies is at the center of a fight between the EU and the U.S. over the limits of platform regulation. The committee has accused the Commission of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-congress-eu-digital-services-act-foreign-censorship\/\">censorship<\/a> through its Digital Services Act (DSA) on the basis that it harms the freedom of speech of Europeans and Americans. The Commission has strongly denied the accusations and said it is seeking to minimize risks to users.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s letters express concern about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-tech-enforcer-tells-officials-civil-society-not-to-be-scared-after-us-threats\/\">comments<\/a> made by the Commission\u2019s lead DSA enforcer, Prabhat Agrawal, in February, to civil society groups, regulators and platforms. <\/p>\n<p>Agarwal said that following pressure from the U.S., his colleagues have started sending messages via Signal, an encrypted app, rather than email, and many now have messages set to auto-delete, with the \u201cauto-delete timings getting shorter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee said its subpoenas require that documents are not deleted or modified, and that it expects \u201cfull compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The companies the letters are addressed to are <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/2843b1db-8884-4159-95d2-3a1983252d3d\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/5349dbdf-33e9-48a1-b9e5-07a85a13f3c4\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/304fdd5b-27c7-49ed-a161-27de8707c85c\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/673169fc-f37a-409b-8ee5-a4d42bedf5f7\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/1023247b-7a51-47a3-b97f-40eb5174ae8a\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/139e1226-55fa-4b10-9e9a-690de4959415\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/81c676f0-adfd-47f4-89c2-a18c7981dbc7\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/3dbfd959-4c27-41b4-8a58-d1775489d3d3\" target=\"_blank\">Rumble<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/83458539-a104-4118-9b54-3949e1cb4a3b\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/api.politico.eu\/editorial_documents\/40ec9420-bb65-484e-8fd0-a52e12fae5c2\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; governing online content at the biggest <span class=\"match\">tech<\/span> companies is at the center of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}