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We Talk Targeted Advertising and California’s “Online Eraser” Law on RT America
TF’s Berin Szoka appeared on RT America’s Tech Report today, discussing Twitter’s recent purchase of online advertising company MoPub and California’s new “Online Eraser” law....
The Federal Trade Commission Has Become the Federal Technology Commission: TF in TechDirt
Today, the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Trade Commission, TF’s Berin Szoka and Geoffrey Manne wrote in TechDirt about the agency’s dominant...
Hey, FTC, Whatsathamattawitchew? Focus on identity theft, already!
The FTC’s raison d’etre is the prevention of consumer harm. The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive acts and practices. Both proscriptions are grounded in...
More fuzzy thinking about the magical power of broadband
We’re all in favor of faster broadband and of removing regulatory barriers at the Federal, state and local level that make it difficult for new...
Regulators cannot resist loving the Internet to death
This law also reminds us regulators cannot resist loving the Internet to death. California alone considered an astounding 215 bills containing the word “Internet” this legislative...
100 is the New 30: Commissioner Ohlhausen on How the FTC Stays Vital in the Digital Age
Join TechFreedom and the International Center for Law & Economics this Friday, September 27, as we commemorate the 99th anniversary of the Federal Trade Commission Act....