Bipartisan overhaul of HSR form shows FTC’s Dems, Republicans can work together

When the Federal Trade Commission announced long-awaited changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notification requirements last week, it was the first time in the rule’s 45-year history that such a major overhaul had taken place — and it...

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Surveillance pricing and the Walmart-Vizio deal

We saw in the last issue that the Federal Trade Commission is studying individualized or “surveillance” pricing, looking first at its obvious consumer protection effects. But a firm’s ability to set individual prices can also be relevant in assessing antitrust cases. The agency’s review of the...

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Rule banning fake reviews takes effect Oct. 21

“I was disappointed when this product arrived,” the three-star review on Amazon said. “The pop tarts were just crumbles.” Compare that to this snippet from a review of another product posted about...

Privacy Corner: Georgetown Law’s Ohm advised FBI on privacy

Georgetown Law Professor Paul Ohm landed his first job as a lawyer with the Department of Justice in the early 2000s. Computer programming had offered the perfect segue.

In hurricane aftermath, feds act to clean up disinformation

Along with a recent storm came a torrent of disinformation, causing state and federal officials, including those at the Federal Trade Commission, to set the record straight on scams and other...

Scrutiny of AI tenant screening grows as consumer advocates file suit

A new lawsuit alleging RentGrow’s services violate Washington, DC, consumer protection laws marks the latest attempt to rein in the tenant screening industry, one that’s facing mounting scrutiny...

When civil action fails to deter, FTC calls in consumer crime unit

A Federal Trade Commission lawsuit wasn’t enough to stop one California man from his multimillion-dollar deception, neither was a court holding him in contempt, or the millions the commission...

FTC’s probe of utilities caused monumental changes in government

This is the second in a series of articles marking the 110th anniversary of the Federal Trade Commission’s founding.

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A Supreme Court justice describes how she got there

Supreme Court justices tend to write two kinds of books, either coming-of-age memoirs or analyses of some aspect of the law.