If Republican nominees Melissa Holyoak of Utah and Andrew Ferguson of Virginia are confirmed, as expected, to join the Federal Trade Commission this month, they could change the dynamics of an agency that’s been under single-party control for half...
Hard cases are notorious for making bad law. But sometimes the easy and obvious cases can make bad law, too. Something like this seems to be going on with insulin pricing.
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You just sat down to dinner and the phone rings. Who is it? The annoying interruption is from a robocall—one of those prerecorded telemarketers making a pitch. These days more and more people...
Taking money from U.S. taxpayers was standard operating procedure, hardly worth trying to hide, at Swiss-owned bank UBS, according to an FTC:WATCH analysis of testimony in the month-long trial of...
More people are headed to jail in the widening municipal bond corruption scandal, which involved more than a half-dozen major financial services firms.
The FTC has issued a staff report with new guidelines for the emerging field of facial recognition technology, following a one-day conference in December on how improvements in imaging capabilities...
In late October, McDonald’s Corp. shut down one practice that critics said violated children’s privacy, and in the process illuminated a wide range of issues affecting the field.
The setting for the talk was extraordinary—the L’Auberge Del Mar hotel in Southern California—and the content of the speech by outgoing FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch was equally noteworthy.