Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 7 - Caught on Camera

Private equity’s favorite way to make acquisitions may be illegal, FTC chair Lina Khan says

FTC Chair Lina Khan said the agency is looking into whether roll-up strategies, often used by private equity firms, violate antitrust laws.

Fortune

Biden's White House is taking on corporate mergers, landlord junk fees and food prices

The Biden administration is proposing new guidelines for corporate mergers, taking steps to disclose the junk fees charged by landlords and launching a crackdown on price-gouging in the food industry

The Independent UK

FTC and Justice Department double down on strategy to go after corporate monopolies

New guidelines from the FTC and Justice Department are part of a broader push to promote competition and limit what the White House sees as excessive consolidation.

WEKU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Are A.I. regulatory fears just an 'upsell' opportunity for Big Tech?

A.I. ethics, safety, and regulation concerns may just be another "upsell" opportunity for some tech firms.

Fortune

The FTC chair taking on Big Tech

Republicans smeared Khan as a "bully" who is "misleading" the FTC. Here's why an FTC chair is enraging the right

Salon

ChatGPT creator OpenAI faces US probe over libellous output

US Federal Trade Commission asks startup to provide information about safeguards amid reports of defamatory content.

Al Jazeera

Republicans attack FTC chair and big tech critic Lina Khan at House hearing

Khan accused of giving herself ‘unchecked power’ by taking aggressive steps to regulate Twitter, Meta and Google

The Guardian - US

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Explosive Exchange: FTC Chair faces off against hostile US Congress over Microsoft-Activision merger

The tax-payer funded U.S. FTC hasn't had much luck recently. FTC Chair Lina Khan was accused of "intentionally" taking cases it knew it would lose in a fraught hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives. Watch the clips here.

Windows Central

FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm

ChatGPT sees its first hint of regulation as the federal agency requests documentation about its business practices.

WEKU

OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot probed by FTC over consumer harms

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI Inc., questioning whether its popular ChatGPT conversational AI bot puts consumers’ reputations and data at risk, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Tribune News Service

House Republicans set to interrogate FTC's Khan over ethics, antitrust issues

House Republicans who say the Federal Trade Commission has been overzealous and politicized under President Joe Biden are set to interrogate agency head Lina Khan on Thursday

The Independent UK

Why FTC's child privacy push costs Amazon, Microsoft millions

SEATTLE — With the recent spate of privacy-focused investigations, government regulators may be looking to send Big Tech a message — and it's landing in Seattle's tech-fueled backyard.

Tribune News Service

The Geopolitics of Extraditing Hackers

Episode 466 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason

FTC Proposes ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Online Subscription Rule

Follows lawsuit filed against Amazon over Prime auto-renewal

Multichannel News

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - US

Amazon duped millions into enrolling in Prime, US regulator says in lawsuit

Federal Trade Commission alleges Jeff Bezos firm used ‘manipulative and deceptive user-interface designs to trick consumers’

WEKU

FTC sues Amazon for 'tricking and trapping' people in Prime subscriptions

Federal regulators say Amazon uses manipulative techniques to enroll shoppers into Prime memberships that are purposefully hard to cancel.

Fortune

As FTC sues Amazon over Prime, Lina Khan says it 'tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent'

Khan noted that Amazon “revamped its Prime cancellation process for at least some subscribers shortly before the filing of this Complaint.”

The Independent UK

FTC accuses Amazon of enrolling consumers into Prime without consent and making it hard to cancel

The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on Wednesday for what it called a years-long effort to enroll consumers without consent into its Prime program and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Los Angeles Times

In San Francisco, Biden says AI has ‘enormous promise’ but comes with risks

SAN FRANCISCO — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that artificial intelligence has “enormous promise” but that it also comes with risks such as fueling disinformation and job losses — dangers his administration wants to tackle.

Los Angeles Times

Biden to meet with experts about the dangers of AI on visit to San Francisco

President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet researchers and advocates with expertise in artificial intelligence on Tuesday in San Francisco as his administration attempts to tackle potential dangers of a technology that could fuel misinformation, job losses, discrimination and privacy violations.

Reason

FTC Chair Lina Khan Ignored Ethics Official's Advice About Meta Case, Then Said She Didn't

Plus: RIP Daniel Ellsberg, the Pioneers of Capitalism, and more...

Tribune News Service

Lina Khan rejected FTC ethics recommendation to recuse in Meta case

The Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan declined to recuse herself from an FTC case against Meta Platforms Inc., despite the advice of the agency’s top ethics official, according to internal agency documents.

Reason

'I Did Everything Right and They Indicted Me,' Says Defiant Trump in Post-Arraignment Speech

Plus: The FTC takes on Microsoft, RIP Cormac McCarthy, and more...

PC Gamer

AI is being used to 'supercharge' phone scams with the cloned voices of your relatives

Crooks are using voice cloning technology to trick sympathetic folks out of money.

Fortune

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai are now begging governments to regulate the A.I. forces they’ve unleashed

A.I. is “too important not to regulate well,” Pichai wrote, while Altman suggested that a body like the IAEA would soon be needed to oversee A.I.

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations