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FTC Announces Antitrust Case Against Amazon Retail Practices 

PublishedSeptember 26, 2023

Washington – The Federal Trade Commission, and 17 state attorneys general, have announced a case in federal district court challenging Amazon’s popular retail services. Although almost every large retail business, including online and in-store retail, uses similar strategies, the FTC is essentially arguing that Amazon’s policies to obtain lower prices for consumers on its service harms competitors.  Other allegations involve Amazon’s retail pricing model that keeps prices low and identifies when customers are seeing the lowest current price for a product. Outlawing these tools ...

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CCIA Applauds FCC For Reviving Net Neutrality

September 26, 2023
Washington - The Federal Communications Commission is placing reviving open internet rules on its agenda for October. Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced today the FCC would consider a proposed r...
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CCIA Offers Comments On Indian Merger Regulations

September 25, 2023
Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association filed comments on the Competition Commission of India’s draft merger (combinations) regulations, highlighting CCIA’s concerns ...
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CCIA’s Response To Expanded Targets In FTC’s Case Against Amazon Prime’s Sign Up Policies 

September 20, 2023
Washington – The Federal Trade Commission, which announced a case against Amazon’s retail signup and cancellation practices in June, has expanded the case now to name three Amazon executives in th...
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CCIA Appoints New Head of Europe

September 20, 2023
Brussels, BELGIUM – The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is pleased to announce Daniel Friedlaender as its new Senior Vice President and Head of Office for CCIA Europe. ...
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Senate Committee To Question FTC Nominees At Hearing Wednesday

September 19, 2023
Washington – Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell has scheduled a full committee nominations hearing Wednesday to consider three nominees to the Federal Trade Commission, including two Rep...
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Digital Markets Act: CCIA Europe Raises Concerns About Consumer Profiling Template

September 19, 2023
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe) filed a submission to the European Commission’s consultation on the template relating to the reporting on consumer profiling tech...
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CCIA Responds To Ruling that California’s Child Privacy Law Likely Violates First Amendment

September 18, 2023
Here is the Computer & Communications Industry Association’s response to a federal district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction today in NetChoice v. Bonta, a legal challenge to the Cali...
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CCIA Offers Comments On FTC and DOJ’s Draft Merger Guidelines

September 18, 2023
Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association filed comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s draft Merger Guidelines, released for...
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CCIA Provides Input to Pennsylvania Lawmakers on Adding Child Online Measure To A Bill

September 18, 2023
Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association sent a letter to Pennsylvania state legislators ahead of a potential vote on a bill aimed at improving teens’ mental health but ...
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