Enlarge / Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill on April 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images) Amazon filed a 25-page petition today with the FTC asking that Chairwoman Lina Khan recuse herself from antitrust investigations into the company. Khan, a frequent […]
The FTC’s new chairperson Lina Khan could revitalize the agency’s stumbling antitrust case against Facebook. Read More
Enlarge / Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill on April 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images) President Joe Biden named Lina Khan chair of the Federal Trade Commission just hours after her confirmation in the Senate as one of the agency’s […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Hans-Guenther Oed | STOCK4B-RF) The Federal Trade Commission and officials from six states yesterday sued Frontier Communications, alleging that the telecom provider misrepresented Internet speeds and charged many customers for higher speeds than it actually provided or was capable of providing. The complaint was filed in US District Court for […]
Enlarge / Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are shown at a 2019 hearing. Both senators harshly criticized big technology companies at the 2021 confirmation hearing for Lina Khan to serve on the Federal Trade Commission. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) When President Joe Biden chose Lina Khan for one of the Federal […]
Enlarge / Supreme Court Justices, from left, Chief Justice John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan listen during then-President Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) A Supreme Court ruling yesterday killed the […]
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday urged a federal judge in DC to reject Facebook’s request to dismiss the FTC’s high-stakes antitrust lawsuit. In a 56-page legal brief, the FTC reiterated its arguments that Facebook’s profits have come from years of anticompetitive conduct. “Facebook is […]
Enlarge / Cricut is neither the first nor last internet-connected device to alter the deal after the fact and tell you to pray it doesn’t alter it further. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Lucasfilm) Yet another company that makes Internet-connected devices is drawing the wrath of customers by demanding a monthly subscription fee long after users […]
Enlarge / Lina Khan, as photographed for a 2017 profile in The Washington Post. (credit: An Rong Xu | The Washington Post | Getty Images) US President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to nominate antitrust scholar Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, a move that would indicate his administration is open to aggressive antitrust […]
Even the Federal Trade Commission is stepping up its electronic solitude work, and it has asked only about every significant social networking platform you can imagine to describe what personal information it collects from customers, and the reason why. The requests for information went {} to nine programs (or their parent firms, where relevant ), […]