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Google Suit Fails To Expose Monopolistic Practices

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Observations on the White House Privacy Report

Last week, the Administration released its long-awaited privacy report.  The new privacy framework includes a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and a Multistakeholder (MSH) process to develop “enforceable codes of…

Raising the Cost of Innovation

Google stirred up a hornet’s nest when it announced its new privacy policy, including questions from Congress, a request from the EU for Google to delay implementing the new policy…

The Search Neutrality Police

Three months after holding a hearing on Google’s search engine business practices, Senators Kohl and Lee have written a letter to FTC Chairman Leibowitz urging a thorough investigation of the…

Use the Market to Allocate Spectrum

Congress is now considering legislation to grant the FCC new authority to hold voluntary incentive auctions for spectrum. This legislation would alleviate shortages of spectrum that are threatening to hold back the development of a wireless broadband platform capable of competing with wireline platforms. It would boost the economy and advance our progress toward a more efficient, market-oriented spectrum regime.

The Introduction of New Domain Name Services: “Due Process” and Innovation

For those interested in encouraging innovation in the domain name space—which presumably includes the ICANN community currently convening in Dakar—the recent episode in which VeriSign proposed, and then quickly withdrew,…

Revised articles from TPI conference “Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries” Review of Industrial Organization

Attachments Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries

The Federal Trade Commission Penalizes Google For Being Successful

Penalizing Success – The FTC’s Google Investigation

In theory, the antitrust laws do not penalize size, but it seems that virtually every firm that has become dominant in the technology sector—IBM, Microsoft, Intel, and now Google—ultimately becomes…

Privacy and Data Security: Protecting Consumers in the Modern World. Testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate

Without substantially better data and analysis, policymakers cannot make informed decisions concerning data privacy and security legislation. Data privacy and security are different issues and should be dealt with separately…

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