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The Federal Trade Commission Has Become the Federal Technology Commission: TF in TechDirt

September 26, 2013

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...


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...


FTC Commissioner Wright Proposes Long Overdue Standards for Prosecuting Unfair Methods of Competition

June 19, 2013

Today, Federal Trade Commissioner Josh Wright released a draft Policy Statement on Unfair Methods of Competition in a speech to the New York State Bar...


Wyndham: FTC Must Provide More Guidance for Unfairness, Data Security

May 2, 2013

Today, the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) and TechFreedom filed an amici curiae brief in the federal District Court of New Jersey arguing that...