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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.
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Amendments to the federal rule governing commercial processing of health data should account for the emerging use of artificial intelligence and should include a precise definition of “health provider,” according to public comments to the Federal Trade Commission.
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The rise of the Internet has made the volatile debate over free expression even more contentious. Now the increasing use of confrontational speech and the spread of misinformation have led to calls for more regulation.
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Representative Ken Buck, who has led efforts to strengthen antitrust laws, is leaving Congress.
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Mortgage brokers, auto dealers, payday lenders and many other nonbank financial institutions are required to report cybersecurity breaches to the Federal Trade Commission under an amendment to the Safeguards Rule set to take effect in April 2024.
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A smartphone app from Consumer Reports lets consumers ask businesses to delete or stop selling their data. But a patchwork of state laws and lack of federal regulation mean consumers’ requests can legally go unheeded in most of the United States.
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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 from applying a balancing test.
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Merging companies got a boost when the Supreme Court said they could challenge the constitutionality of the US Federal Trade Commission’s in-house court before the completion of adjudication, but federal district court judges are starting to signal they don’t want to hear such a challenge if it’s presented as a defense to an agency’s attempt to block a deal.
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With Google and a group of plaintiffs filing a joint witness list and their proposals for jury instructions, the framework is coming into focus for what would be the first-ever US class action privacy trial involving a large tech company, a trial that could reveal the inner workings of Google’s data-collection stack for the first time.
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Newman returns to teaching law
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April 3-4 — The International Association of Privacy Professionals is holding its Global Privacy Summit 2024 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Washington, DC. For more details, go to: https://iapp.org/conference/global-privacy-summit/.
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