Archive | April, 2011

May 10th Hearing Set for Google, Apple to testify on privacy

The smartphone spying controversy has finally led to a formal Congressional hearing date by the U.S. Senate Judiciary’s privacy subcommittee.  According to the Hill, Apple and Google representatives will be joined by representatives of the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. When Sen. Al Franken, the subpanel’s chair, announced the hearing earlier this week, he [...]

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FTC’s Timothy Wu: Don’t Let Dominant Internet Firms Add Monopolies

I missed this article last week but it has important implications for what the FTC might do with its Google antitrust probe. Timothy Wu was recently hired by the FTC from his position at  Columbia University in New York, where he teaches telecommunications and copyright law.  In an April 18th interview, her was pretty blunt that [...]

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