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Court Rejects Trump DOJ Suit to Block AT&T/Time Warner Merger

June 12, 2018

Last November, the Department of Justice stunned the antitrust world by suing to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. No such “vertical” deal (between two...


Is the FCC stalling on the IP Transition to coerce concessions from telcos?

October 9, 2013

The companies that own the old copper telephone networks are chomping at the bit to transition to Internet Protocol so they can carry not only...


Now in its 100th year, the FTC has become the Federal Technology Commission

September 26, 2013

Today marks the 99th anniversary of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which will be commemorated tomorrow by FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen in an public address...


PCWorld Covers Our LabMD Data Security Event

September 13, 2013

Yesterday, PCWorld published an article on our 9/12 data security event co-hosted with Cause of Action: …The FTC should back away from authority it says...


Panel Announced for 9/12 Discussion of FTC’s LabMD & Wyndham Data Security Cases

September 6, 2013

Join TechFreedom and Cause of Action in DC, or online, for a luncheon discussion on September 12 about the Federal Trade Commission’s informal regulation of...


What to Do about Data Security? A Discussion of the FTC’s LabMD & Wyndham Cases

September 4, 2013

Over the last decade, the Federal Trade Commission has settled nearly four dozen cases alleging that a failure to have “reasonable” data security constitutes an...