Henry Liu, formerly a partner at Washington, D.C.-headquartered law firm Covington & Burling, has been appointed director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition. Liu litigated complex antitrust cases and served
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The Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pledged to enforce laws to protect consumers against the misuse of automated
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Officials from the U.S. and the European Union discussed ways to boost global cooperation and promote fair competition in the technology sector during the third Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue. The delegates
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The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday released a policy statement that it will begin strictly reinforcing an existing rule to penalize companies that use unfair methods of competition. The agency relaxed its
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Stephanie Nguyen has been appointed chief technology officer at the Federal Trade Commission after holding the role on an acting basis for one year. FTC Chair Lina Khan made the announcement on
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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments on a proposed rule to address the negative effects of collecting, analyzing and profiting from people’s information and implementing lax data security practices. FTC
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Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., a three-time Wash100 Award winner, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance in
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The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission will conduct public forums over the next three months to hear customers, employees, investors, startups and other stakeholders about the effects of mergers
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Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has announced new appointments to an artificial intelligence strategy group within the Office of Policy Planning that will advise the agency on emerging technology issues. Olivier
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Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), responded to a letter by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., with regard to the lawmaker’s questions over FTC’s analysis of vertical mergers in the
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