Act against data-driven bias, advocacy groups tell FTC
A coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to hold companies accountable as online harms against people of color and women proliferate.
What’s up with that West Virginia v. EPA opinion?
What was going on in the Supreme Court’s opinion in West Virginia v. EPA? Everyone has a sense the new “major questions doctrine” will create problems for the antitrust agencies. But what kinds of problems exactly?
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Battle on: Critics say Privacy Shield will be challenged and tossed out
Even as software industry advocates, corporate lawyers and US officials quickly embraced the new deal governing the transfer of data across the Atlantic — called Privacy Shield — consumer activists...
Antitrust agencies don’t hesitate to take proposed tie-ups to court
The Justice Department’s bold decision to challenge both Aetna’s proposed merger with Humana and Anthem’s proposed deal for Cigna is the latest evidence that the antitrust watchdogs’ bark is backed...
LabMD lacked ‘even basic precautions,’ FTC says in order overturning dismissal of data security case
Medical testing company LabMD’s computer data security practices lacked “even basic precautions” to protect sensitive consumer information maintained on its systems, the Federal Trade Commission...
FTC, DirecTV accuse each other of withholding evidence in deceptive marketing case
The Federal Trade Commission wants information about DirecTV’s advertising campaigns dating as far back as 2007, and the agency has been fighting in federal court to get it.
House Republicans make second request for probe of Clinton Foundation
The Federal Trade Commission is finding itself at the other end of a second request.