Well, well, well, the saying goes … if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions. As compliance plans roll out under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe, self-aware DMA advocates must be thinking these rueful thoughts. But it’s never a sentiment anyone wants to express unironically in public. [...]
Last week, ACT | The App Association sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) highlighting that the FTC’s proposed updates to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) merger notification rule fail to properly account for small business concerns. In assuming that the rule would have no significant effect on small companies, [...]
Last week, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) hosted a listening session as part of its ongoing work on child safety online. This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee hosts a hearing on Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis. In both discussions, policymakers were urged to make [...]
Frustrated advocates are saying that Congress is falling down on the job by declining to enact the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA, S. 1409) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0, S. 1418). One Wired article summarizes the legislative process those bills traversed and cites harms [...]
On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) case against Amazon reached another milestone as Amazon filed its motion to dismiss (MTD). Straightforwardly, Amazon pointed out that the FTC failed to state a valid claim, mainly because it provided no evidence of the harm to competition and consumers it alleges took [...]