WASHINGTON — President Biden will sign a sweeping executive order on Friday aimed at spurring competition across the economy, encouraging federal agencies to take a wide range of actions, including […]
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Back to news homeCongress Faces Renewed Pressure to ‘Modernize Our Antitrust Laws’
The F.T.C. is “closely reviewing the opinion and assessing the best option forward,” said Lindsay Kryzak, a spokeswoman for the agency.The rulings were another instance of Facebook’s ability to evade […]
Facebook Antitrust Cases Brought By FTC and States Are Thrown Out
The state suit was signed by attorneys general from 46 states and the District of Columbia and Guam. Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota did not join the case.Facebook […]
Perspectives on tackling Big Tech’s market power
The need for markets-focused competition watchdogs and consumer-centric privacy regulators to think outside their respective ‘legal silos’ and find creative ways to work together to tackle the challenge of big […]
Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden
Mr. Biden’s decision caps an unusually rapid ascent for Ms. Khan. She was born in London to Pakistani parents who emigrated to the United States when she was 11. She […]
Europe Proposes Strict Rules for Artificial Intelligence
The European Union unveiled strict regulations on Wednesday to govern the use of artificial intelligence, a first-of-its-kind policy that outlines how companies and governments can use a technology seen as […]
Republican antitrust bill would block all Big Tech acquisitions
There are about to be a lot of antitrust bills taking aim at Big Tech, and here’s one more. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) rolled out a new bill this week […]
Facebook’s tardy disclosure of breach timing raises GDPR compliance questions
The question of whether Facebook will face any regulatory sanction over the latest massive historical platform privacy fail to come to light remains unclear. But the timeline of the incident […]
Google’s Legal Peril Grows in Face of Third Antitrust Suit
More than 30 states added to Google’s mushrooming legal woes on Thursday, accusing the Silicon Valley titan of illegally arranging its search results to push out smaller rivals.One day after […]
Why Antitrust Suits Against Facebook Face Hurdles
SAN FRANCISCO — When the Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 states sued Facebook on Wednesday for illegally killing competition and demanded that the company be split apart, lawmakers […]