News & Analysis as of

Data Collection Competition

Hogan Lovells

A step forward or backward? An analysis of the recent Mexican telecommunications bill

Hogan Lovells on

The Bill introduces a strong technical framework, yet a weak one in terms of policy and digital rights. On the one hand, the Bill proposes a flexible licensing framework for the adoption of future technologies in the mobile...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Axinn Associates at the Antitrust Spring Meeting: Examining Algorithmic Pricing Tools

The Spring Meeting is the largest gathering of competition, consumer protection, and data privacy profes­sionals globally, with lawyers, academics, economists, enforcers, journalists, and students from around the world....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Court Definitively Rejects Fair Use Defense in AI Training Case

In one of the most closely-watched copyright cases this year, a Delaware court rejected defendant, ROSS Intelligence’s (“ROSS”), fair use and other defenses by vacating its previous stance and granting summary judgement in...more

TransPerfect Legal

Practical Measures to Streamline HSR Filings Under the Revised Premerger Notification Form and Associated Rules

TransPerfect Legal on

On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published new and expansive regulations for filing notifications under the Hart Scott Rodino (“HSR”) Act. Among other things, HSR notifications now require the...more

BCLP

Will This Be on the Exam? FTC Staff Issues Two Initial Reports on Surveillance Pricing

BCLP on

On January 17, 2025, the staff at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released their first results from the FTC’s Surveillance Pricing market study. The FTC staff reports, including both a “staff perspective” and an “issue...more

HaystackID

DOJ Targets Google’s Chrome in Groundbreaking Antitrust Action

HaystackID on

In a landmark move, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is poised to introduce unprecedented measures to counteract Google’s dominance in the online search sphere. Following a decisive ruling by U.S. District Judge Amit...more

Kerr Russell

Price Collusion in the Crosshairs

Kerr Russell on

There has been a spate of legislation and lawsuits targeting the use of software that gives visibility to competitors’ prices. This allows firms to adjust their prices, either undercutting the competition or setting a de...more

WilmerHale

UK, EU, and US release joint statement on competition in generative AI foundation models and AI products

WilmerHale on

On July 23, the European Commission, US Department of Justice, US Federal Trade Commission, and UK Competition and Markets Authority released a joint statement setting out shared principles on competition in markets that...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FCA Publishes Findings From Its Wholesale Data Market Study

Latham & Watkins LLP on

The FCA found that wholesale data markets can be improved, but has ruled out a significant intervention. The FCA has published the findings of its wholesale data market study (MS23/1.5), which examined competition in the...more

Jones Day

EU Emergency Response Update – Key Policy & Regulatory Developments No. 110

Jones Day on

This regular alert covers key regulatory developments related to EU emergency responses, including in particular to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, COVID-19, and cyber threats. It does not purport to provide an...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

FTC Weighs in on Threats to Competition from Artificial Intelligence in Comment to U.S. Copyright Office

Foley & Lardner LLP on

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently submitted a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office in response to its “Notice of Inquiry” in the Federal Register examining copyright issues related to artificial intelligence (AI)....more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

AI and Accountability: A Look at the President's New Executive Order

After observing that “Artificial intelligence offers enormous promise and great risk,” the Biden administration recently announced an Executive Order (the “Order”) setting the table for future government action in this...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Generating Scrutiny: FTC Outlines Competition Concerns in Generative AI

Vinson & Elkins LLP on

On June 29, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Bureau of Competition and Office of Technology published a joint blog post that provided deeper insight into the FTC’s focus on competition in generative artificial...more

TransPerfect Legal

GOOD MORNING EUROPE: Preparing for a Wave of Dawn Raids and Investigations Across Europe

TransPerfect Legal on

Earlier this year, TransPerfect Legal Solutions held our second conference on the Future of UK and EU Competition Regulation, bringing together a wide range of external counsel, in-house lawyers and legal technologists from...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

European Commission Moves Forward with Open Antitrust Cases Against Expected Gatekeepers

The European Commission (EC) ended the year 2022 by making significant progress in its pending antitrust investigations against two of the largest digital platforms....more

White & Case LLP

Information Exchange Between Competitors — A Competition Law Perspective

White & Case LLP on

There is no doubt that "information" is a valuable asset in today's economy and companies must be "well informed" in order to remain competitive. The exchange of information between companies is therefore a commercial reality...more

Perkins Coie

What’s Next for Privacy at the FTC Following the Confirmation of Alvaro Bedoya

Perkins Coie on

Alvaro Bedoya was sworn in as a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on May 16, 2022. Bedoya is well known in privacy circles. He founded the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law School, where...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Ninth Circuit Once Again Preserves Competitor’s Data-Scraping Rights

McDermott Will & Emery on

On remand from the Supreme Court of the United States, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its own 2019 opinion that preliminarily enjoined a professional networking platform from denying a data analytics...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The Privacy and Antitrust Paradox in the Age of Data

Proskauer Rose LLP on

It used to be privacy was largely the domain of constitutional law and patient health care law: the Fourth Amendment, and then the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)....more

Lighthouse

Biden Administration Executive Order on Promoting Competition: What Does it Mean and How to Prepare

Lighthouse on

On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed a sweeping new Executive Order (“the Order”) with the stated goal of increasing competition in American markets. Like the recently issued Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Biden Administration Issues Sweeping Executive Order to Foster Competition

Womble Bond Dickinson on

This afternoon, President Biden signed a landmark executive order aimed at promoting economic competition by limiting the power of large corporations. The sweeping executive order includes 72 initiatives across more than a...more

Goodwin

Biden Executive Order Calls for Heightened Antitrust Scrutiny

Goodwin on

On July 9, 2021, President Joe Biden announced a broad executive order (the “Order”) intended to boost what it characterizes as stagnant competition across the U.S. economy. The Order, among other things, encourages the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Charting A New Course For Antitrust: President Biden’s Executive Order Promoting Competition In The American Economy

On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order (EO) creating a “whole-of-government competition policy” that directs more than a dozen federal agencies to work in concert with the Department of Justice...more

Bracewell LLP

President Biden Signs Executive Order that Likely Will Lead to Greater Scrutiny of Data Privacy in Corporate Transactions

Bracewell LLP on

On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order titled “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” Data privacy regulations are among 72 other initiatives in the Executive Order aimed at increasing...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Summary of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights Hearing

Robins Kaplan LLP on

On April 21, 2021, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights held a hearing to discuss Google and Apple’s role in the mobile app ecosystem and their effect on third-party app...more

48 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide