More than 100 companies, including Facebook, Google and Amazon, have reportedly sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission warning the regulator against its proposed rules regarding net neutrality, to be revealed next week.
After earlier proposals to protect the open Internet were struck down, the FCC is reportedly planning on …read more
The issues in antitrust law have long had a timeless quality. Although the legal doctrine and the economic theory underlying them have changed over time, the fundamental issues of cartels, vertical exclusion, market definition, oligopoly pricing, and monopolization that were the focus of antitrust policy when the Federal Trade Commissions …read more
In this article, I focus my remarks on the FTC’s work on data security and consumer privacy, and especially the privacy of information collected from consumers via the internet. I will not focus on the FTC’s important work in other aspects of consumer protection and competition.
Although vital work on privacy …read more
In 1914 Congress gave the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sweeping jurisdiction and broad powers to enforce flexible rules to ensure that it would have the ability to serve as the regulator of trade and business that Congress intended it be. Much, perhaps even the great majority, of what the FTC …read more