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We chat with friend of the pod and special guest Alex Gaynor, former deputy chief technologist at the FTC and all around good Security Person™. Join for nerd...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
The following is an adapted excerpt from “Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes” by Erik Peinert, now out at Oxford University Press. Read it at ProMarket >>| ProMarket
In a dynamic regulatory landscape, certification is becoming not just an asset but a necessity for highly regulated businesses to acquire services such as payment processing. Get the recap from our latest webinar, then watch the full presentation. The post Why LegitScript Certification Is Your Passport in 2025: A Recap for Healthcare Businesses appeared first on LegitScript.| LegitScript
A group recently sued by the FTC says the organization is mislabeling common computer practices as “bot” usage.| Pro Posts – Billboard
We chat with friend of the pod and special guest Alex Gaynor, former deputy chief technologist at the FTC and all around good Security Person™. Join for nerd...| securitycryptographywhatever.com
I worked for the Federal Trade Commission when we banned employers from trapping workers with “noncompete clauses.” Now that victory is in danger. The post Employers Want to Trap You in Dead-End Jobs. Will Trump’s FTC Help Them? appeared first on OtherWords.| OtherWords
On August 7, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a $45 million settlement with online lead generator MediaAlpha, Inc. and its subsidiary QuoteLab, LLC (collectively, “MediaAlpha”), resolving allegations that the companies misled consumers seeking health insurance products. According to the FTC, MediaAlpha tricked consumers into sharing sensitive personal information under the guise of offering... Continue Reading…| Inside Privacy
Biden’s FTC chair speaks out| UnHerd
For years, conservatives have fought the covert censorship of their viewpoints in the news and on social media. Media Matters, a left-wing nonprofit, is one of the many groups known […] The post Battle Against Censorship Faces Blow as Judge Halts FTC Inquiry appeared first on NRB.| NRB
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission began to crack down on false “Made in the USA” claims, sending warning letters to a number of companies and promising that “companies that falsely claim their products are ‘Made in the USA’ can expect to hear from the FTC.” But new research out of Michigan State University found […]| Retail TouchPoints
The United States government has long had an interest in boosting its high technology sector, with manifold objectives: for soft power, espionage, and financial dominance, at least. It has accomplished this through tax incentives, funding some of the best universities in the world, lax antitrust and privacy enforcement, and — in some cases — direct […]| Pixel Envy
Autorenewal regulation has been a recent focus of both federal and state regulators. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently vacated the| Inside Privacy
As manufacturers play an active role in the patients’ healthcare journey, the boundaries between manufacturers and healthcare providers/payers are becoming increasingly blurry.| MedCity News
Kroger has reached a settlement with C&S Wholesale Grocers, resolving the latter’s lawsuit following the collapse of Kroger’s $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons in December 2024. No financial details of the settlement were available. Had the merger gone through, Kroger and Albertsons planned to sell 579 stores to C&S to satisfy the antitrust concerns of […]| Retail TouchPoints
The second Trump administration has been signaling a move away from the Biden administration’s policy of actively discouraging mergers. This change in direction could benefit the U.S. economy. But some merger uncertainty remains, rooted in the administration’s decision to retain 2023 merger guidelines. Targeted revisions to those guidelines—or, at the very least, public pronouncements designed ... Reducing Merger Uncertainty Could Help the American Economy The post Reducing Merger Uncer...| Truth on the Market
In July, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that telemedicine company NextMed agreed to pay $150,000 to settle charges that it deceptively| Inside Privacy
Reddit is surging with advertiser demand; not everyone is Substack material; and Trump released his AI Action Plan.| AdExchanger
I’d like to begin with a tip of the hat to my former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) colleague Tara Koslov, who recently announced her retirement from the FTC after more than 28 years of service. Tara and I agreed on much, but far from everything. Heck, I have it on good authority that she hated ... The More Things Change: Exits, Reversals, and the Revolving Door The post The More Things Change: Exits, Reversals, and the Revolving Door appeared first on Truth on the Market.| Truth on the Market
The federal antitrust agencies appear to be easing up on merger enforcement, ditching a Biden administration policy of discouraging mergers. This change in direction could promote enhanced American innovation and economic growth. M&A Economic Benefits Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) generate various major economic benefits: They reallocate badly managed commercial assets to higher-valued uses, raising business ... M&A Enforcement Easing Under the Trump Administration The post M&A Enforcement E...| Truth on the Market
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Antitrust Division filed a statement of interest late last week in a private antitrust case brought against a number of major news publishers by, among others, the Children’s Health Defense—the organization previously chaired by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Nominally, the DOJ’s statement can be ... Antitrust and Collusion on Regulating Misinformation: Thoughts on the DOJ’s Statement of Interest The post Antitrust an...| Truth on the Market
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched a public inquiry into technology platform censorship. Digital-platform censorship clearly raises serious policy concerns. Nevertheless, before filing lawsuits, the FTC and its fellow enforcement agency, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) will need to factor in platforms’ First Amendment protections and limitations on agency statutory authority. Bringing platform-censorship cases may ... Competition Law and Technology-Platform Censorship T...| Truth on the Market
The consumer financial services landscape is undergoing a transformative shift under the second Trump administration, with significant deregulatory| Consumer Finance Monitor
Big tech companies "cross-use" user data from one part of their business to prop up others. This hurts innovation & choice. The FTC must investigate. Plus, the GDPR is emerging as a defacto international standard. Whether this helps or harms United States firms will be determined by whether the United States enacts and actively enforces robust federal privacy laws.| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
If you rely on outbound calling to generate sales for your business, you should be aware of the TSR. Learn what it is and how to protect your business.| Readymode®
Last week’s “listening session” on pharmaceutical competition, hosted jointly by the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), may go down as an important precursor to the Trump administration’s promised campaign to lower drug prices. While billed as a fact-finding exercise, the discussion revealed competing visions to reform the U.S. pharmaceutical ecosystem, with ... First Impressions from the DOJ/FTC Listening Session on Drug-Price Competition The post First...| Truth on the Market
The Supreme Court’s limits on universal injunctions put the FTC’s noncompete rule back in play. What does it mean for noncompetes?| Fair Competition Law
A little bird (ok, a normal-size adult human being) has asked me a question about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. CASA. It might not be the question on the tip of everyone’s tongue, although it’s a natural one for those interested in competition policy, administrative law, or all things (or at ... Mi CASA es Mi CASA The post Mi CASA es Mi CASA appeared first on Truth on the Market.| Truth on the Market
Now that we have had some time with the newly revised FTC Disclosure Guidelines, we are starting to think about the practical application in addition to the big picture. One of the questions that I have been asked the most is about what exactly the FTC has said can and cannot be used for disclosure. […] The post Affiliate and Influencer Disclosure Cheat Sheet appeared first on Tricia Meyer.| Tricia Meyer
We have been waiting for this update for a LONG time and it is finally here! The FTC has updated its Endorsement Guides, which are the source of the disclosure rules that affiliate marketers and influencers (among others) must follow. I think my favorite part of this new update is the reference to “dog influencers.” […] The post FTC Updates Disclosure Guidelines for Affiliates and Influencers appeared first on Tricia Meyer.| Tricia Meyer
Photo by MART PRODUCTION on Pexels.com By: Penny Pathanaporn Introduction Have you ever noticed the endless stream of brand endorsements flooding your social media feed? Maybe you’d never even cons…| Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
When you watch a news broadcast, you expect to see bonafide news stories, interviews, and produced pieces and not infomercials masquerading as any of those types of segments. David B. was appalled recently while watching CBS Mornings - that network's version of the Today Show and GMA.| Mouse Print*
Various states are ramping up their review of proposed mergers and acquisitions. Both Washington and Colorado have enacted new pre-merger notification statutes that will take effect this summer, and other states have introduced or are considering similar legislation. These changes could impose major new costs on potential merging parties and harm the U.S. economy. In ... New State Merger-Review Laws Could Harm US Economy| Truth on the Market
Consumer protection authority has long been a staple of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) enforcement of the FTC Act, beginning with the 1938 Wheeler-Lea amendments to the agency’s establishing statute. And Congress drew an express connection between the FTC’s competition and consumer protection authorities with the introduction of Section 5(n) of the FTC Act, which ... Some Ups and Downs in the Realm of Consumer Protection The post Some Ups and Downs in the Realm of Consumer Protect...| Truth on the Market
President Donald Trump is off to a fast start in his second term in the White House. Along with a bevy of other consequential actions, the president has called into question the constitutionality of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) independence. At first blush, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States ... The Modern FTC and Distinguishing Humphrey’s Executor The post The Modern FTC and Distinguishing Humphrey’s Executor appeared first on Tru...| Truth on the Market
A curious political convergence has been reshaping U.S. antitrust policy. Conservative populists have found common cause with the so-called “neo-Brandeisians” of the left—named for the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis—in seeking to challenge big business, particularly the tech giants. While both cohorts’ concerns about concentrated power deserve attention, their shared willingness to abandon the ... A Hipster and a Hillbilly Walk into a Bar The post A Hipster and a Hillbi...| Truth on the Market
No, not quite. Frequent readers of my Truth on the Market posts (and I hope that the plural form is not self-delusion) may recall my March musings about “What Changes Might, and Should, a New FTC Majority Bring?” I wondered whether a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) majority might drop, among other things, the rushed ... RIP RPA? The post RIP RPA? appeared first on Truth on the Market.| Truth on the Market
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced April 14 that it has “launched a public inquiry into the impact of federal regulations on competition, with the goal of identifying and reducing anticompetitive regulatory barriers.” A request for public comment (RPC) on the inquiry has also been published in the Federal Register. Bravo. The inquiry will not ... Back to the Future (of Competition Research and Advocacy)| Truth on the Market
FTC v. Meta Platforms Inc. has gone to court, and trial is just underway in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that Meta is currently, in 2025, engaged in monopolization in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by dint of having acquired Instagram ... The FTC’s Zombie Antitrust Action Against Meta Continues to Lurch Forward| Truth on the Market
Author: Steven Cernak Last week, the FTC voluntarily dismissed its Robinson-Patman Act case against Pepsi that it filed in January. The dismissal and the Commissioner statements accompanying it hinted that the FTC’s determination to revive Robinson-Patman will not be as strong in the Trump Administration. Short and Recent History of the Case This blog has […]| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Ruth Glaeser and Steven Cernak In her first major speech since taking the helm of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater spotlighted a ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak Last week, the FTC voluntarily dismissed its Robinson-Patman Act case against Pepsi that it filed in January. The dismissal and the Commissioner statements accompanying it hinted that the FTC’s determination to revive Robinson-Patman will not be as strong in the Trump Administration. Short and Recent History of the Case This blog has […]| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Ruth Glaeser and Steven Cernak In her first major speech since taking the helm of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater spotlighted a ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Introduction On December 20, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) finalized a consent agreement (“Consent Order”) with Marriott International, Inc. and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide LLC (collectively, “Marriott”) to settle allegations that Marriott failed to implement reasonable data security measures, resulting in three large data breaches from 2014 to 2020 and [...]| Debevoise Data Blog
As we approach the end of the year, here are the Top 11 Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2024 by page views. If you are not already a Blog subscriber, click here to sign up. Good AI Vendor Risk Management Is Hard, But Doable (September 26, 2024) As companies slowly [...]| Debevoise Data Blog
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said two operators of an alleged eCommerce business opportunity scam have agreed to settle the charges. Trevor Duffy| PYMNTS.com
Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) and Interpublic (NYSE: IPG) today announced that the companies have each received a Request for Additional Information and Documentary Material (Second Request) from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection with Omnicom’s proposed acquisition of Interpublic.| Omnicom Group
On April 23, 2024, the US Department of Labor finally announced its changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations regarding bona fide exempt| ELH / HR4Sight
Authors: Steven Cernak and Luis Blanquez On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its usual annual announcement to increase the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act thresholds. The ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
For Immediate Release: December 17, 2024 Contact: mail@consumercal.org Sacramento, CA – Statement by Consumer Federation of California Executive Director Robert Herrell regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s final rule on junk fees, announced early on Tuesday, December 17, 2024: “The Consumer Federation of California applauds the Federal Trade Commission, and particularly FTC … Read More ›| Consumer Federation of California
HR Sight is the go-to HR support service tracking new labor laws in every state of the United States. Find out if your company is up-to-date today!| ELH / HR4Sight
Nestled within the Biden administration’s recent, sweeping Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is a small, rather oblique paragraph that has garnered little attention to date. Appearing as Section 5(d), it urges the Attorney General and the … The post Biden Administration Signals Reversal Of Delrahim Position on Standards Essential Patents appeared first on ConsortiumInfo.org.| ConsortiumInfo.org
As our world becomes increasingly digital, the importance of cybersecurity has never been more critical. In the first blog post in our series for| cyber/data/privacy insights
In this first installment of our series on the automotive and mobility sector, Cooley cyber/data/privacy lawyers introduce the key data privacy legal| cyber/data/privacy insights
Douglas Ross writes that for most of its history, the Federal Trade Commission did not rely on the Chevron doctrine to enforce its mandate to prohibit “unfair methods of competition” and “unfair or deceptive acts or practices.” Thus, Loper Bright will not significantly alter the FTC’s historical role in regulating competition. However, the Chevron doctrine could have been a useful ally to the current FTC, which under Chair Lina Khan has pursued more ambitious rulemaking, such as to ...| ProMarket
A federal judge recently blocked the FTC's ban on noncompetes. The decision has important implications for healthcare.| MedCity News
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in tandem with their fellow competition-law enforcers from Europe (the European Commission) and the United Kingdom (the Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA), issued a joint statement July 23 titled “Joint Statement on Competition in Generative AI Foundation Models and AI Products.” This joint statement ... U.S. Antitrust Enforcers Should Reject AI Interventionism| Truth on the Market
Artificial intelligence is in the public-policy spotlight. In October 2023, the Biden administration issued its Presidential Executive Order on AI, which directed federal agencies to cooperate in protecting the public from potential AI-related harms. President Joe Biden said in his March 2024 State of the Union Address that government enforcers will crack down on the ... Should the Federal Government Regulate Artificial Intelligence?| Truth on the Market
On August 20, 2024, a Texas federal judge permanently barred the implementation of a controversial Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulation that would| Employment Law Worldview
On Wednesday, August 7, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM ET, Beck Reed Riden LLP will be hosting a virtual expert roundtable to discuss the FTC’s looming ban on noncompete agreements.| Beck Reed Riden LLP
SALT LAKE CITY— The Utah Division of Consumer Protection, a division within the Utah Department of Commerce, along with the Federal Trade Commission and other law enforcement partners nationwide, which includes attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, announced a new crackdown on illegal telemarketing targeting operations responsible for billions of calls to U.S. consumers.| dcp.utah.gov
The regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) has drawn significant interest from policymakers in the US, particularly at the state level. There has been| cyber/data/privacy insights
Author: Luis Blanquez We recently wrote about the Federal Trade Commission’s blog post explaining how relying on a common algorithm to determine your pricing decisions might violate Section 1 of ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Luis Blanquez Are you delegating your pricing decisions to a common algorithm software platform? If so, you might violate the antitrust laws. It may not even matter whether you actually ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
The scandal-plagued software company has hired a trio of Capitol Hill insiders to fend off regulatory scrutiny from Congress.| Revolving Door Project
In December 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Rite Aid for the company’s use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in| cyber/data/privacy insights
I’m spending some time getting back up to speed on the major players in the games sector as part of my increased involvement in Hiro Capital, and this chart in the Activision Blizzard annual report leaped out at me: Microsoft was less than 10% of Activision Blizzard’s revenue. Sony was more, and the two main... The post Is Microsoft buying Activision market share? appeared first on Gamesbrief.| Gamesbrief
