Tech titans, other companies face PR hurdles in antitrust suits
Antitrust cases are fought as much in the court of public opinion as in a courtroom, and experts say that calls for a multipronged strategy.
Actually using a balancing test in the Google case
Antitrust lawyers love to talk about the consumer welfare standard and the rule of reason, and indeed these things are central to the intellectual framework of the law and to practical counseling. But when they’re put to the test in high-stakes litigation against Big Tech, courts generally recoil...
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Dems support FTC privacy bureau but roadblocks remain
Momentum is building among congressional Democrats to give the Federal Trade Commission funding to create a new bureau to focus on data security and privacy matters, but obstacles remain to getting...
FTC to stick to sidelines in healthcare investigation
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said the agency will take a back seat in investigating whether large healthcare systems misused federal pandemic relief funds to finance merger and...
Wilson endorses bill to stop agencies’ use of purchased data without warrants
Federal Trade Commission member Christine Wilson has applauded legislation that would stop the federal government from purchasing commercial data on individuals without a warrant. It’s another...
Kanter gets bipartisan backing from past DOJ antitrust heads
Jonathan Kanter, President Joe Biden’s choice to be the Department of Justice’s top antitrust enforcer, has received support from a bipartisan group of people who’ve held the job before.
On the Shelf: Biography of Roosevelt and Wilson resonates in modern political era
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson played seminal roles in shaping antitrust policy. And while both are long dead, the current debate about whether and how to tame large tech...
Auto part, repair scam reports on upswing, data shows
Auto part and repair scam reports to the Federal Trade Commission grew more than threefold from 2017 to 2020 despite ups and downs in the number of complaints, agency data shows.