Amazon’s acquisition of data in One Medical, iRobot deals raises privacy, competition concerns

By Serafina Smith and Madeline Hughes ( December 20, 2022) -- Amazon’s proposed buyouts of iRobot and One Medical would give Amazon access to troves of consumer data if cleared by the Federal Trade Commission. While neither deal has a direct, horizontal overlap, the FTC is likely to consider non-conventional theories of harm while investigating competitive concerns that could arise from Amazon’s acquisitions of both companies’ data sets....

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