The link between market competition and democracy is creating an intellectual tug-of-war between progressives and their conservative counterparts.
The antitrust profession thinks of labor cases as a recent policy innovation. But on the important topic of wage collusion, they date back several decades, at least to the Federal Trade Commission’s memorable case against the great fashion-model conspiracy of 1993.
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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...
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...
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...
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.
The Federal Trade Commission is finding itself at the other end of a second request.