If you get a ton of robocalls, installing an app promising to block them might sound like a good idea.

Robocalls are a huge problem, and a blocker seems like a quick and easy solution for improving the situation.

A security consultant for the cybersecurity firm NCC Group took a look at some of the most popular robocall-blocking apps, and found a number of privacy violations, TechCrunch reports.

The apps they looked at include TrapCall, Hiya, and Truecaller.

According to the firm, the apps will send user and/or device data to third-party analytics companies with the intent of monetizing your data, without asking for your expressed consent to do so.

In many cases that information was also transmitted before a user was presented with the app’s privacy policy.

The White House wants the U.S. government to have a much bigger say on what you see on social media.

A new draft executive order from the White House would put the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in charge of deciding what sites like Twitter and Facebook can remove from their sites, reports CNN, which obtained a copy of a summary of the order.

President Donald Trump and other conservative leaders have long said that conservative content is censored on major social media networks — even though the data shows otherwise.

This order, called “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship,” appears aimed at making it so that conservative content could better thrive on those sites, regardless of whether it breaks the rules.

The order could help conspiracy theories, misinformation, and even deepfakes thrive even more on social media, if they’re considered political conversation.

The proposed order calls for the FCC to create new regulations on how and when the law will protect social media websites, specifically when those sites decide to remove or suppress content on their platforms.

The Trump administration seems determined to take action concerning its irritation with social media networks' supposed bias against right-wing speech, as the White House is reportedly drafting an executive order directing agencies to do something about it.

Politico reported earlier this week that the White House was circulating drafts of a proposed order, but the site couldn't get anyone to describe what was in this document.

Today, however, CNN says it has seen a summary of the draft executive order.

The current draft, called "Protecting Americans from Online Censorship," would put the burden of Internet content management on the Federal Communications Commission, calling on the agency—which has never before dealt with regulation of online content—to develop regulations clarifying under what circumstances social media platforms are protected by the law when moderating content.

It also says the Federal Trade Commission should consider whatever policies the FCC comes up with when it investigates companies for not adhering to their stated policies.

Right-wingers say Twitter’s “bias” against them should be illegal

The White House is stepping up its scrutiny of social media companies.

The Trump administration has drafted an executive order that asks the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission to take major roles in policing tech giants over alleged censorship on their platforms, according to a report Friday from CNN.

The proposal, titled "Protecting Americans from Online Censorship," would enlist the FCC to develop new regulations for social media sites over how they could remove or suppress content, the CNN report said.

Representatives from the White House and FTC didn't return requests for comment.

The law shields tech companies from liability for much of the content posted on their platforms by users.

The draft proposal comes as President Donald Trump and Republicans have increased their attacks on tech giants for what they've called anticonservative bias.

The U.S.’s Federal Communications Commission has sent out a press release confirming that it will not be altering radiofrequency exposure limits for 5G.

This comes at the same time as ongoing worries the cutting edge mobile network technology could prove harmful to humans.

The confirmation comes as part of a larger proposal from FCC chairman Ajit Pai, which would seek to make small changes in how radio wave emissions are judged to be safe — but only in terms of making the rules consistent across different types of technology.

As part of the proposal, various experts were asked their opinion on whether current levels of radiofrequency exposure from existing mobile technologies could be considering harmful or dangerous to humans.

According to the release, the answer was a resounding “no.” The FCC was also at pains to make it clear that exposure limits in the U.S. were amongst the “most stringent in the world.”

5G is the next huge development in mobile networks, promising a huge increase in download speed on mobile devices, and allowing for faster connections between a large network of interconnected devices.

The White House is contemplating issuing an executive order that would widen its attack on the operations of social media companies.

The White House has prepared an executive order called “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship” that would give the Federal Communications Commission oversight of how Facebook, Twitter and other tech companies monitor and manage their social networks, according to a CNN report.

Under the order, which has not yet been announced and could be revised, the FCC would be tasked with developing new regulations that would determine when and how social media companies filter posts, videos or articles on their platforms.

The draft order also calls for the Federal Trade Commission to take those new policies into account when investigating or filing lawsuits against technology companies, according to the CNN report.

In May, the White House set up a tip line for people to provide evidence of social media censorship and a systemic bias against conservative media.

In the executive order, the White House says it received more than 15,000 complaints about censorship by the technology platforms.

Most of the scientific community has already concluded that the latest generation of cellular technology, 5G, is at least as safe to human health as the 2G, 3G, and 4G technologies that became globally ubiquitous over the past two decades.

After an extended review, the agency has just given 5G a fairly definitive thumbs up for safety, though even this high level of reassurance is unlikely to stop conspiracy theorists from suggesting otherwise.

On paper, the FCC’s findings stop short of explicitly declaring any cellular technology trouble-free, but if you parse the legalese, that conclusion is hard to ignore.

As Commission Chairman Ajit Pai explains, the FCC will “continue to ensure the health and safety of workers and consumers of wireless technology” by “maintain[ing] the Commission’s existing radiofrequency (RF) exposure limits,” which “for handheld devices are among the most stringent in the world.” Put more simply, the FCC says your existing cellular phone is already operating within strict, safe limits, and as the 5G era dawns, there’s no need to reduce radio signal strength further.

Pai is also proposing that the FCC do away with service- or technology-specific rules, and instead establish broad guidelines so that new devices can comply more uniformly with radio emission limits.

In other words, rather than acting like 5G is somehow markedly different from 3G or 4G, or triggering a new outcry whenever 6G or other wireless standards are launched, the FCC wants rules that treat all radio-based devices the same.