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NTIA’S Listening Sessions On Privacy and Civil Rights: What's the Significance?
In case you missed it, last week (on November 30), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it would convene a series of virtual listening sessions on privacy, equity, and…
The Deletion of “Legitimate Business Activity” from the FTC’s Strategic Plan
For decades, the FTC has explained that the omission of information can lead to liability. It is also a canon of statutory construction that an amendment helps reveal legislative intent. And of course, your mother put…
Some fireworks at Bedoya’s Senate confirmation hearing, but confirmation still seems likely
On November 17, the Senate Commerce Committee held its eagerly-awaited hearing on the nomination of Alvaro Bedoya, a data privacy academic from Georgetown Law, to be FTC Commissioner. Bedoya is slated to replace Rohit…
Commissioner Christine Wilson Excoriates The FTC Chair’s Agenda in ABA Fall Forum Speech
Last week. FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson delivered a speech with a title that made clear she intended to speak her mind: The Neo-Brandeisian Revolution: Unforced Errors and the Dimunition of the FTC. Predicting…
The Section 13(b) Fix: Stand-Still on the Hill?
Following House passage of 13(b) legislation this summer, Congressional Democrats seem to have lost some of the urgency with which they were moving to strengthen the FTC’s penalty authorities in the wake of the…