Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard’s past writing about the hurdles involved in using the legal system to hold tech giants accountable is referenced in an article about “sherlocking.”
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley explains why the FCC should block Verizon’s attempt to merge with a critical competitor and market participant.
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Open Markets asserts that a recent SEC action against the unregistered sale of over $30 million of securities through a DeFi platform clarifies that excluding DeFi from tax reporting is a dangerous idea.
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Open Markets supports Rep. Eshoo’s reintroduction of the “Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act” because stopping the spread of dis- and misinformation and online propaganda is critical for preserving the integrity of our elections and strengthening American democracy.
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The crypto market is growing—and so is the insidious effort to exempt cryptocurrency tax reporting. Read our fact sheet about the implications of crypto tax reporting on regulatory oversight, tax evasion, and national security.
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Nikki Usher, senior fellow at the Center for Journalism & Liberty, is quoted noting that U.S. news markets have long neglected to provide coverage for many communities.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we applaud the nomination of Jonathan Kanter as head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and a House committee’s move to limit the threats posed by family-controlled investment funds.
Open Markets celebrates the Financial Services Committee’s passage of a package of bills aimed at bringing new, much-needed transparency to family offices.
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Read our fact sheet on family-controlled investment funds - widely known as “family offices” - and the loophole that allows them to control so much of our financial markets without any regulatory oversight.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes in Common Dreams about Amazon’s latest ploy to release an Alexa-enabled tracking device for children—and the corporations larger crusade to monopolize markets and surveil consumer and third-party merchants.
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The Open Markets Institute applauds the Biden administration’s nomination of Jonathan Kanter to run the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
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Policy analyst Daniel Hanley demonstrates how federal antitrust enforcers could use compulsory licensing to help bolster and speed up other anti-monopoly efforts, especially when it comes to tech giant Google.
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In this issue, we take a closer look at the White House’s executive order on competition, Amazon’s far-reaching surveillance practices, building resilient food supply chains, and the systemic risks of cryptocurrency.
Check out our “Eyes Everywhere” two-part report series illustrating the dangers of Amazon’s worker surveillance, Amazon’s competitor and consumer surveillance, and the solutions available here→
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Sandeep Vaheesan testified against carving out additional workers from D.C.’s “Non-Compete Conflict of Interest Clarification Amendment Act of 2021” and to instead amend the law to extend its protection to all workers in the District.
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New report enumerates a plethora of predatory, exclusionary, and unfair practices that Amazon implements to surveil its competitors and consumers.
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