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December 10, 2025
RealPage has agreed to stop using competitors’ sensitive data to decide rental prices as part of an antitrust settlement with the Department of Justice.
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December 10, 2025
When a new administration takes office, the year is often marked by quick changes in general policy, which can be far more important than specific cases. This was especially true in the head-snapping transition from the Biden to Trump eras.
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December 10, 2025
James Rill, the Department of Justice’s top antitrust enforcer who successfully prosecuted the financial aid practices of elite colleges, died on Nov. 21. He was 92 and suffered from Parkinson’s disease.
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December 10, 2025
So many books, so little time. Here are some of the best works FTCWatch reviewed in 2025 that’ll take you into 2026.
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December 10, 2025
A pair of Democratic lawmakers called for a Federal Trade Commission investigation into the cybersecurity practices of Atlanta-based Flock Group — the second congressional letter about the technology surveillance company in as many months.
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November 18, 2025
The Department of Justice’s consumer protection docket has a new home alongside a highly specialized team of agency lawyers with their sights on anticompetitive regulations, immigration policies, gender-related healthcare services and local government practices that run afoul of federal law.
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November 18, 2025
Melissa Holyoak stepped down Monday from her role as a Federal Trade Commissioner and has already begun her new job as interim US Attorney for the District of Utah. In a farewell note, she told FTC staff that she was proud of the incredible work the agency has accomplished in fulfilling its mission.
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November 18, 2025
US Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Washington Democrat who once owned an auto repair shop with her husband, has sponsored a bill to make repairs of farm equipment more accessible.
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November 18, 2025
A 23-year veteran economist from the Department of Justice joined Charles River Associates, the Boston-based consulting company announced.
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November 18, 2025
The chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee are asking the Supreme Court to revisit the antitrust exemption for Major League Baseball.
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November 18, 2025
March 25-27, 2026 — The American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section is holding its 74th Annual Spring Meeting. It will take place at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. For more information, go to: https://events.americanbar.org/event/9afe2e97-7d0a-45ff-9b18-061b3f357006/summary.
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November 18, 2025
The American Bar Association has inducted four of the most distinguished practitioners into its Antitrust Section’s Hall of Fame-inism.
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November 18, 2025
Google has received antitrust clearance for its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz, according to the Federal Trade Commission’s website.
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November 18, 2025
President Donald Trump told the Department of Justice to initiate a price-fixing probe into meatpacking companies for allegedly inflating beef prices.
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November 18, 2025
The nature of the Federal Trade Commission and presidential power will be at issue on Dec. 8 as the Supreme Court hears the case in which former Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter challenges her firing by President Donald Trump.
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November 18, 2025
Meta Platforms warned it faces claims of up to “tens of billions of dollars” in looming social media addictive design trials. Meanwhile, Amazon saw its operating income slashed by 2.4 percentage points because of a $2.5 billion settlement with US regulators.
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November 18, 2025
You could fill several shelves with books that critique the influence of Big Tech from the left.
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November 18, 2025
Ryan S. Baasch, President Donald Trump’s choice to be the newest member of the Federal Trade Commission, is a lawyer who knows the inside of a courtroom, even as he was the field general for arguably one of the most effective privacy litigation strategies by a regulator against large tech companies.
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November 18, 2025
Sometimes the emotional temperature that the Federal Trade Commission brings to a topic will tell us as much about the agency's real intentions as any formal announcements. Nowhere is this more true than in protecting children on the Internet.
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November 04, 2025
As lawmakers put Biden-era decisions about content moderation under a microscope, there are two emerging paths to confronting the critics: turn to community notes or strengthen independent teams that make moderation decisions.
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November 04, 2025
Working on Capitol Hill on tech policy over a decade ago, Aaron Cooper often found himself trying to negotiate between different industry groups where “no one wanted to talk to each other,” he told FTCWatch.
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November 04, 2025
An organization that seeks greater privacy protections for children has urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google for violating the law.
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November 04, 2025
A new report said this year an average of 2.56 billion unwanted robocalls have occurred every month. That’s the highest annual total since 2019, the year Congress passed a law to tamp down the problem.
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November 04, 2025
The Department of Justice has created a new office within the Civil Division — the Enforcement and Affirmative Litigation Branch.
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November 04, 2025
A large portion of the administrative state that conservatives are eager to dismantle came into being during the 1930s, as the country was recovering from the Great Depression.