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The Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"74.654548006738\"><body readability=\"149.77474609671\"><\/p>\n<p>The head of the Federal Trade Commission described to lawmakers Thursday new technology, personnel and infrastructure the agency needs as it prepares to implement and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/take-it-down-act-passes-house-first-amendment-encryption\/\">enforce the Take It Down Act<\/a>, placing the FTC\u2019s enforcement wing at the forefront of the fight against nonconsensual deepfake pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC\u2019s proposed budget holds funding at $425.7 million, the same as last fiscal year. Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, said in his opening comments that the agency faces rising costs around IT, infrastructure and expert witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>He also anticipated that the FTC will need additional staffing and resources to enforce the new law, which compels websites and platforms that publish or share nonconsensual deepfake pornography to remove such content within 48 hours of receiving a request from a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson agreed, noting the agency needs more resources from Congress \u2014 such as secure, isolated software for staff to review explicit material \u2014 to implement the law. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to need some kind of segregated technology system to house this material when we\u2019re conducting investigations,\u201d said Ferguson, adding that it\u2019s very likely such a system would include instances of AI-generated child sexual abuse material. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to want that intermingled with the other bread-and-butter data that the commission brings on to conduct investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said the agency will need to hire specialized staff, such as prosecutors and investigators, noting that the work takes a \u201cpsychological toll\u201d on those who review such material regularly for their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, it may be difficult to enforce the law against some of the worst offenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of this comes from outside of the United States,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are people who are not going to be super responsive to the civil law enforcement component of the FTC, since they\u2019re already taking tremendous criminal risks outside the United States to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson also addressed more general funding needs, calling insufficient IT infrastructure and capacity and rising costs for expert analysis \u201cserious\u201d problems for the agency\u2019s enforcement mission.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA lot of our cases, not just big tech cases \u2026 require us to onboard massive amounts of data in order to investigate potential wrongdoing and proceed to litigation where appropriate, and we don\u2019t currently have the infrastructure to house, maintain and access those data in a meaningful way, so we end up paying vendors to do a lot of that for us,\u201d he told lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>A pilot program under the Biden administration brought more tech resources in-house at the FTC, and Ferguson plans to expand it agency-wide. He also floated the idea of the FTC setting a maximum budget for what the agency is willing to spend on litigating specific cases.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dems-challenge-ferguson-on-staffing-commissioner-firings\">Dems challenge Ferguson on staffing, commissioner firings<\/h5>\n<p>Ferguson expressed less concern about staffing despite a loss of 1,221 full-time employees since last year. He told the committee the hiring surge during the Biden administration was unsustainable, noting the agency is using carryover funds for payroll, and he expects further staff cuts during the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>Ranking member Steny Hoyer, D-Md., referenced Ferguson\u2019s use of the phrase \u201cTrump\/Vance FTC\u201d in his opening statement, saying he was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about the agency\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI was caught by that because I don\u2019t see that very often. \u2026 Actually, it\u2019s America\u2019s FTC,\u201d said Hoyer, adding that he \u201cwould urge [Ferguson to] do it in as nonpartisan a way, and frankly I urged your predecessor to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By statute, the FTC is governed by a five-member commission, with a partisan split of 3-2 in favor of the party that controls the White House.<\/p>\n<p>But the current FTC has only Republican commissioners, after President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/trump-moves-to-fire-democratic-ftc-commissioners\/\">moved to fire Democratic commissioners<\/a> Alvaro Bedoya and Kelly Slaughter. The pair are <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/bedoya-slaughter-ftc-lawsuit-unlawful-dismissal-trump\/\">fighting the move in court<\/a>, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/295\/602\/\">1935 Supreme Court precedent<\/a> that the president cannot legally fire an FTC commissioner for policy differences, only for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.<\/p>\n<p>Bedoya and Slaughter have also argued the issue on good government terms, arguing the FTC cannot fulfill its essential function as a bipartisan agency protecting consumers from deceptive or unfair trade practices if commissioners can be removed by the executive at a whim.<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer said efforts by the Trump White House to root out dissent \u201cseems to be creeping into almost everything we do, where so-called non-loyalists are being fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey need to be loyal to the county and to the oath that we all take to the Constitution and the laws thereof, not to any individual or group of individuals,\u201d Hoyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson publicly pledged in his 2023 confirmation hearing to be an FTC commissioner to follow binding Supreme Court precedent, specifically referencing Humphrey\u2019s Executor, the same 1935 case. But when Trump moved to fire Slaughter and Bedoya, Ferguson supported the decision, saying he had no doubt it was in the president\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about this seeming contradiction, Ferguson said he is a named defendant in the lawsuit and was thus limited in his ability to reply, but cited legal briefs filed in his name that argue a key rationale for that decision was the limited scope of FTC executive authority. Today\u2019s FTC wields \u201corders of magnitude\u201d more executive authority than it did in 1935, and he pointed to comments made by justices in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/19pdf\/19-7_n6io.pdf\">a 2020 Supreme Court case<\/a> that indicated a desire to overturn the precedent.<\/p>\n<p>Under Ferguson\u2019s predecessor Lina Khan, the FTC leaned heavily on its antitrust enforcement authorities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.closeup.org\/lina-khan-the-ftc-and-antitrust-laws\/\">targeting mergers and consolidations<\/a> between large entities while arguing such mergers reduce competition and benefit large corporations over regular consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson made it clear that under his leadership the FTC would be friendlier to such actions, saying that during the Biden administration the agency had \u201can ideological bent\u201d against mergers and acquisitions that he felt were important to getting capital to founders and fostering innovation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf we think that a deal is anti-competitive and we think we can win in court, we\u2019re going to go to court and if we can\u2019t, we\u2019re going to get out of the way and we\u2019re going to get out of the way quickly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.7262357414449\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-4.jpg?resize=1264,843 1264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\"><figcaption> WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 15: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson testifies before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"74.654548006738\"><body readability=\"149.77474609671\"><\/p>\n<p>The head of the Federal Trade Commission described to lawmakers Thursday new technology, personnel and infrastructure the agency needs as it prepares to implement and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/take-it-down-act-passes-house-first-amendment-encryption\/\">enforce the Take It Down Act<\/a>, placing the FTC\u2019s enforcement wing at the forefront of the fight against nonconsensual deepfake pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC\u2019s proposed budget holds funding at $425.7 million, the same as last fiscal year. Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, said in his opening comments that the agency faces rising costs around IT, infrastructure and expert witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>He also anticipated that the FTC will need additional staffing and resources to enforce the new law, which compels websites and platforms that publish or share nonconsensual deepfake pornography to remove such content within 48 hours of receiving a request from a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson agreed, noting the agency needs more resources from Congress \u2014 such as secure, isolated software for staff to review explicit material \u2014 to implement the law. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to need some kind of segregated technology system to house this material when we\u2019re conducting investigations,\u201d said Ferguson, adding that it\u2019s very likely such a system would include instances of AI-generated child sexual abuse material. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to want that intermingled with the other bread-and-butter data that the commission brings on to conduct investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said the agency will need to hire specialized staff, such as prosecutors and investigators, noting that the work takes a \u201cpsychological toll\u201d on those who review such material regularly for their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, it may be difficult to enforce the law against some of the worst offenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of this comes from outside of the United States,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are people who are not going to be super responsive to the civil law enforcement component of the FTC, since they\u2019re already taking tremendous criminal risks outside the United States to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson also addressed more general funding needs, calling insufficient IT infrastructure and capacity and rising costs for expert analysis \u201cserious\u201d problems for the agency\u2019s enforcement mission.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA lot of our cases, not just big tech cases \u2026 require us to onboard massive amounts of data in order to investigate potential wrongdoing and proceed to litigation where appropriate, and we don\u2019t currently have the infrastructure to house, maintain and access those data in a meaningful way, so we end up paying vendors to do a lot of that for us,\u201d he told lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>A pilot program under the Biden administration brought more tech resources in-house at the FTC, and Ferguson plans to expand it agency-wide. He also floated the idea of the FTC setting a maximum budget for what the agency is willing to spend on litigating specific cases.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dems-challenge-ferguson-on-staffing-commissioner-firings\">Dems challenge Ferguson on staffing, commissioner firings<\/h5>\n<p>Ferguson expressed less concern about staffing despite a loss of 1,221 full-time employees since last year. He told the committee the hiring surge during the Biden administration was unsustainable, noting the agency is using carryover funds for payroll, and he expects further staff cuts during the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>Ranking member Steny Hoyer, D-Md., referenced Ferguson\u2019s use of the phrase \u201cTrump\/Vance FTC\u201d in his opening statement, saying he was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about the agency\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI was caught by that because I don\u2019t see that very often. \u2026 Actually, it\u2019s America\u2019s FTC,\u201d said Hoyer, adding that he \u201cwould urge [Ferguson to] do it in as nonpartisan a way, and frankly I urged your predecessor to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By statute, the FTC is governed by a five-member commission, with a partisan split of 3-2 in favor of the party that controls the White House.<\/p>\n<p>But the current FTC has only Republican commissioners, after President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/trump-moves-to-fire-democratic-ftc-commissioners\/\">moved to fire Democratic commissioners<\/a> Alvaro Bedoya and Kelly Slaughter. The pair are <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/bedoya-slaughter-ftc-lawsuit-unlawful-dismissal-trump\/\">fighting the move in court<\/a>, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/295\/602\/\">1935 Supreme Court precedent<\/a> that the president cannot legally fire an FTC commissioner for policy differences, only for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.<\/p>\n<p>Bedoya and Slaughter have also argued the issue on good government terms, arguing the FTC cannot fulfill its essential function as a bipartisan agency protecting consumers from deceptive or unfair trade practices if commissioners can be removed by the executive at a whim.<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer said efforts by the Trump White House to root out dissent \u201cseems to be creeping into almost everything we do, where so-called non-loyalists are being fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey need to be loyal to the county and to the oath that we all take to the Constitution and the laws thereof, not to any individual or group of individuals,\u201d Hoyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson publicly pledged in his 2023 confirmation hearing to be an FTC commissioner to follow binding Supreme Court precedent, specifically referencing Humphrey\u2019s Executor, the same 1935 case. But when Trump moved to fire Slaughter and Bedoya, Ferguson supported the decision, saying he had no doubt it was in the president\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about this seeming contradiction, Ferguson said he is a named defendant in the lawsuit and was thus limited in his ability to reply, but cited legal briefs filed in his name that argue a key rationale for that decision was the limited scope of FTC executive authority. Today\u2019s FTC wields \u201corders of magnitude\u201d more executive authority than it did in 1935, and he pointed to comments made by justices in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/19pdf\/19-7_n6io.pdf\">a 2020 Supreme Court case<\/a> that indicated a desire to overturn the precedent.<\/p>\n<p>Under Ferguson\u2019s predecessor Lina Khan, the FTC leaned heavily on its antitrust enforcement authorities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.closeup.org\/lina-khan-the-ftc-and-antitrust-laws\/\">targeting mergers and consolidations<\/a> between large entities while arguing such mergers reduce competition and benefit large corporations over regular consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson made it clear that under his leadership the FTC would be friendlier to such actions, saying that during the Biden administration the agency had \u201can ideological bent\u201d against mergers and acquisitions that he felt were important to getting capital to founders and fostering innovation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf we think that a deal is anti-competitive and we think we can win in court, we\u2019re going to go to court and if we can\u2019t, we\u2019re going to get out of the way and we\u2019re going to get out of the way quickly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.7262357414449\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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(Photo by Stefani Reynolds \/ AFP) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header class=\"post-item__meta\" readability=\"2.7751937984496\">\n<h3 class=\"post-item__title\"> <a class=\"post-item__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/take-it-down-act-passes-house-first-amendment-encryption\/\"> House passes legislation to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes <\/a> <\/h3>\n<p> The Take It Down Act received rare levels of bipartisan support in the House and Senate, but critics fear enforcement could threaten First Amendment protections and unduly\u2026 <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/derek-johnson\/\"> Derek B. Johnson <\/a> <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <\/header>\n<p> <\/article>\n<article class=\"post-item post-item--popular-stories-cards \">\n<figure class=\"post-item__thumbnail\"> <a class=\"post-item__thumbnail-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/bedoya-slaughter-ftc-lawsuit-unlawful-dismissal-trump\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"292\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-3.jpg?resize=292%2C168&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-ratio-16-9-sm size-ratio-16-9-sm wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-6.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-6.jpg?resize=300,173 300w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-6.jpg?resize=768,442 768w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-6.jpg?resize=600,345 600w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-6.jpg?resize=292,168 292w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ftc-wants-a-new-segregated-software-system-to-police-deepfake-porn-6.jpg?resize=586,337 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\"> <\/a><figcaption class=\"screen-reader-text\"> FTC Commissioners Rebecca Slaughter, left, and Alvaro Bedoya, right, sit behind FTC Chair Lina Khan as she testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header class=\"post-item__meta\">\n<h3 class=\"post-item__title\"> <a class=\"post-item__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/bedoya-slaughter-ftc-lawsuit-unlawful-dismissal-trump\/\"> Democratic FTC Commissioners file lawsuit against Trump over attempted firings <\/a> <\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/derek-johnson\/\"> Derek B. 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