From the newest consumer gadgets to the explosion in communications capability that is driving global economic growth, technological innovation enhances our lives and provides us with new tools to perform everyday tasks. The Federal Trade Commission promotes competition in technology industries (like computers, software, communications, and biotechnology) as the best way to reduce costs, encourage innovation, and expand choices for consumers. Because the stakes are high in these fast-paced markets and the benefits to consumers and to the economy substantial, the FTC’s work in these areas is all the more important.
Technology markets can present some unique issues and challenges for policy makers, manufacturers, distributors, and consumers. Innovation is a central aspect of rivalries among technology firms, and the markets are dynamic: new ideas topple formerly dominant technologies and consumers line up to buy products that are smaller, faster, and better. But the fundamental principles of antitrust law and economics are equally applicable to even the newest industries.
This Web site has information about FTC activities to protect and promote competition in technology markets. Here you will find information on hearings and workshops, enforcement actions, and testimony by FTC Commissioners, as well as important consumer information on staying safe online.
- Rytr ( )
- Empire Holdings Group LLC, et al. FTC v. ( )
- Ascend Ecom ( )
- DoNotPay ( )
- Facebook, Inc., FTC v. ( )
- Verkada Inc., U.S. v. ( )
- Illumina, Inc., and GRAIL, Inc., In the Matter of ( )
- FBA Machine/Passive Scaling, FTC v. ( )
- Adobe, Inc., U.S. v. ( )
- NGL ( )
- Lurn ( )
- Doxo ( )
- AT&T Mobility LLC (Mobile Data Service) ( )
- Restoro-Reimage ( )
- Rite Aid Corporation, FTC v. ( )
- Traffic and Funnels, LLC., FTC v. ( )
- Automators ( )
- IQVIA Holdings/Propel Media, In the Matter of ( )
- CRI Genetics, FTC and State of California v. ( )
- NTS IT Care, Inc. and Jagmeet Singh Virk, FTC v. ( )
- FTC Order Against AI-Enabled Review Platform Sitejabber Will Ensure Consumers Get Truthful and Accurate Reviews ( )
- FTC Takes Action to Stop Lyft from Deceiving Drivers with Misleading Earnings Claims ( )
- FTC Takes Action Against Marriott and Starwood Over Multiple Data Breaches ( )
- FTC Announces Virtual Workshop on the Attention Economy: Monopolizing Kids’ Time Online ( )
- FTC Announces Crackdown on Deceptive AI Claims and Schemes ( )
- FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance of Users with Lax Privacy Controls and Inadequate Safeguards for Kids and Teens ( )
- FTC Sends Refunds to Consumers Harmed by CafePress’s Data Security Failures ( )
- FTC Action Leads to Settlement Against Individual and Company that Operated Business Opportunity Scheme That Took Millions from Consumers ( )
- FTC Takes Action Against Security Camera Firm Verkada over Charges it Failed to Secure Videos, Other Personal Data and Violated CAN-SPAM Act ( )
- FTC Files Amicus Brief Saying COPPA Can’t Force Parents Into Arbitration ( )
- FTC Outlines Remedy Concerns in Amicus Brief After Jury Finds Google Illegally Monopolized App Store ( )
- FTC Investigation Leads to Lawsuit Against TikTok and ByteDance for Flagrantly Violating Children’s Privacy Law ( )
- FTC Submits Comment to FCC on Work to Protect Consumers from Potential Harmful Effects of AI ( )
- FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing ( )
- FTC, DOJ, and International Enforcers Issue Joint Statement on AI Competition Issues ( )
- FTC Order Will Ban NGL Labs and its Founders from Offering Anonymous Messaging Apps to Kids Under 18 and Halt Deceptive Claims Around AI Content Moderation ( )
- FTC Warns Companies to Stop Warranty Practices That Harm Consumers’ Right to Repair ( )
- FTC Finalizes Order with Avast Banning it from Selling or Licensing Web Browsing Data for Advertising and Requiring it to Pay $16.5 Million ( )
- Statement of the Commission Regarding TikTok Complaint Referral to DOJ ( )
- FTC Takes Action Against Adobe and Executives for Hiding Fees, Preventing Consumers from Easily Cancelling Software Subscriptions ( )
- Data Clean Rooms: Separating Fact from Fiction( )
- FTC Says Surveillance Camera Company Verkada Has A Lotta Explaining To Do After Lax Data Security Practices and More( )
- Behind the FTC’s Inquiry into Surveillance Pricing Practices( )
- On Open-Weights Foundation Models( )
- Anonymous messaging app targeting teens: Read the disturbing allegations in FTC and Los Angeles DA action against NGL( )
- Global Perspectives from the International Competition Network Tech Forum( )
- Succor borne every minute( )
- P = NP? Not exactly, but here are some research questions from the Office of Technology.( )
- Consumer Facing Applications: A Quote Book from the Tech Summit on AI( )
- Data and Models: A Quote Book from the Tech Summit on AI( )
- Security Principles: Addressing Vulnerabilities Systematically( )
- Business Blog’s Clear Eye on AI( )
- FTC announces winners of Voice Cloning Challenge – and has a word or two for businesses( )
- Approaches to Address AI-enabled Voice Cloning( )
- Best Practices in Building Tech Capacity in Law Enforcement Agencies( )
- Government Agencies Act to Elevate and Build Tech and Digital Capacity( )
- Semiconductor Chips & Cloud Computing: A Quote Book( )
- Revised rule and proposed amendment expand the fight against illegal telemarketing( )
- Ready, Set, PrivacyCon( )
- Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing( )
- The Attention Economy: Monopolizing Kids’ Time OnlineFebruary 25, 2025
- Open Commission Meeting- May 23, 2024May 23, 2024
- Reinvigorating Antitrust: Citizens, not just Consumers: A conversation between Lina Khan and Daron AcemogluMarch 25, 2024
- PrivacyCon 2024March 6, 2024
- FTC Tech SummitJanuary 25, 2024
- Open Commission Meeting -November 16, 2023November 16, 2023
- Creative Economy and Generative AIOctober 4, 2023
- Chair Lina M. Khan fireside chat at the 2023 POLITICO Tech and AI SummitSeptember 27, 2023
- Cloud Computing: Taking Stock and Looking AheadMay 11, 2023
- Cmr. Slaughter fireside chat at The Athens Roundtable on AI and the Rule of lawDecember 1, 2022
- Cmr. Slaughter keynote at 2022 AI and Tech SummitSeptember 29, 2022
- Open Commission Meeting - September 15, 2022September 15, 2022
- Open Commission Meeting -June 16, 2022June 16, 2022
- The Future of Pharmaceuticals: Examining the Analysis of Pharmaceutical MergersJune 15, 2022
- The Future of Pharmaceuticals: Examining the Analysis of Pharmaceutical MergersJune 14, 2022
- Working Together to Protect Colorado ConsumersMay 6, 2022
- Open Commission Meeting – September 15, 2021September 15, 2021
- PrivacyCon 2021July 27, 2021
- Bringing Dark Patterns to Light: An FTC WorkshopApril 29, 2021
- PrivacyCon 2020July 21, 2020
- Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Melissa Holyoak In the Matter of Lyft, Inc. ( )
- Statement of Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part In the Matter of Lyft, Inc. ( )
- Statement of Chair Lina M. Khan Joined by Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya In the Matter of Lyft, Inc. ( )
- Concurring Statement of Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson In the Matter of DoNotPay, Inc. ( )
- Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Melissa Holyoak Joined by Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson In the Matter of Rytr, LLC ( )
- Concurring Statement of Commissioner Melissa Holyoak, Joined by Chair Lina M. Khan In the Matter of DoNotPay, Inc. ( )
- Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson Joined by Commissioner Melissa Holyoak In the Matter of Rytr LLC ( )
- Concurring and Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson Regarding the Social Media and Video Streaming Services Report ( )
- Statement of Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya On the 6(b) Report Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services ( )
- Concurring and Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Melissa Holyoak Regarding the Social Media and Video Streaming Services Staff Report ( )
- Statement of Chair Lina M. Khan Regarding the Social Media and Video Streaming Service Providers Privacy Report ( )
- Remarks of Commissioner Melissa Holyoak at National Advertising Division Keynote 2024 ( )
- Keynote Remarks of Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya Before ForumGlobal’s Sixth Annual Data Privacy Conference USA ( )
- Remarks of Samuel Levine at the National Advertising Division Annual Conference 2024 ( )
- Breaking the Cycle: Addressing Underlying Causes of Systemic Data Risk ( )
- Concurring Statement of Commissioner Melissa Holyoak Regarding Verkada, Inc. ( )
- Concurring Statement of Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson Regarding the Commission’s Brief Amicus Curiae in Shanahan v. IXL Learning, Inc. ( )
- FTC’s Comment on the FCC’s AI-related Notice of Inquiry ( )
- Joint Statement on Competition in Generative AI Foundation Models and AI Products ( )
- Concurring Statement of Commissioner Melissa Holyoak In the Matter of NGL Labs, LLC ( )
- A Look Behind the Screens: Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services ( )
- 6(b) Orders to File Special Report Regarding Surveillance Pricing Involving Intermediary Companies ( )
- Tech Summit on Artificial Intelligence: Consumer Facing Applications ( )
- Tech Summit on Artificial Intelligence: A Quote Book | Data and Models ( )
- FTC Staff Report on Agency's Technology Expertise ( )
- Tech Summit on Artificial Intelligence: A Quote Book | Hardware and Infrastructure Edition: Semiconductor Chips and Cloud Services ( )
- Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Creative Economy Staff Report: Perspectives and Takeaways ( )
- Bringing Dark Patterns to Light ( )
- Combatting Online Harms Through Innovation ( )
- A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers ( )
- Federal Trade Commission 2020 Privacy and Data Security Update ( )
- Nixing the Fix: An FTC Report to Congress on Repair Restrictions ( )
- 6(b) Orders to File Special Reports to Social Media and Video Streaming Service Providers ( )
- Staff Perspective Paper on Loot Box Workshop ( )
- Social Media Bots and Advertising: FTC Report to Congress ( )
- 6(b) Orders to File Special Reports to Technology and Platform Companies ( )
- Reduced Demand Uncertainty and the Sustainability of Collusion: How AI Could Affect Competition ( )
- Protecting Older Consumers: 2017-2018: A Report to Congress of the Federal Trade Commission ( )
- The Connected Cars Workshop: The Federal Trade Commission Staff Perspective ( )
- Cross-Device Tracking: A Federal Trade Commission Staff Report (January 2017) ( )
- FTC Comment to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Regarding Patent Trial and Appeal Board Rules of Practice for Briefing Discretionary Denial Issues, Docket No. PTO-P-2023-0048 ( )
- Oregon Right to Repair Letter ( )
- Comment from the Federal Trade Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright ( )
- Letter to Assemblymember Fahy from Sam Levine and Elizabeth Wilkins ( )
- FTC Staff Letter to Department of Health and Human Services Concerning the 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking and the ONC Health IT Certification Program Rule ( )
- Federal Trade Commission's Statement of Public Interest ( )
- Comment of the Staff of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection: Preliminary Draft for the NIST Privacy Framework ( )
- Comment of the Staff of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection Before the Consumer Product Safety Commission In the Matter of the Internet of Things and Consumer Product Hazards ( )
- FTC Staff Comment to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Regarding the Safety Working Groups “Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure ‘Early Stage’ Template” ( )
- FTC Staff Comment to the NTIA: The Benefits, Challenges, and Potential Roles for the Government in Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things ( )
- FTC Staff Comment to the Federal Communications Commission: In the Matter of Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services ( )
- Comment Filed by Jessica Rich on Privacy Enforcement Implications of FCC’s Proposed Set-Top Box Rulemaking ( )
- FTC Comment Before the Federal Communications Commission Concerning the National Broadband Plan ( )
- FTC Comment Before The Patent and Trademark Office regarding Changes to Practice for Continuing Applications, Requests for Continued Examination Practice, and Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims ( )
- Possible Anticompetitive Barriers to E-Commerce: Contact Lenses: A Report from the Staff of the FTC ( )
- FTC Comment Before the Food and Drug Administration Concerning Applications for FDA Approval to Market a New Drug (Relating to Abbreviated New Drug Application Procedures) ( )
- FTC Staff Comment Before Food and Drug Administration Concerning 180-Day Generic Drug Exclusivity for Abbreviated New Drug Applications ( )
- FTC Staff Comment to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Concerning the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) ( )
- Intellectual Ventures I LLC et al. v. Capital One Financial Corp. et al. ( )
- In re Lamictal Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litigation ( )
- Jo Batman v. Facebook, Inc. ( )
- Wellbutrin XL Antitrust Litigation, In re ( )
- In re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation ( )
- In re Tamoxifen Citrate Antitrust Litigation ( )
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Pfizer, Inc. ( )
- Andrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Kroger Co ( )
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Pfizer, Inc. ( )
- SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp. ( )
- In re: Buspirone Antitrust Litigation MDL ( )
- Prepared Statement of the FTC on Repair Restrictions Before the Committee on Business Affairs & Labor in the Colorado General Assembly ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Before the House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law: “Hearing on Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 4: Perspectives of the Antitrust Agencies" ( )
- Written Testimony of Commissioner Chopra Before the House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law: “Hearing on Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 3: The Role of Data and Privacy in Competition” ( )
- Opening Statement of Commissioner Chopra Before the House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law: “Hearing on Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 3: The Role of Data and Privacy in Competition” ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, “Competition in Digital Technology Markets: Examining Acquisitions of Nascent or Potential Competitors by Digital Platforms," Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on "Staying A Step Ahead: Fighting Back Against Scams Used To Defraud Americans” ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On "Examining the Proposed FCC Privacy Rules," Presented by Chairwoman Edith Ramirez and Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Opportunities and Challenges in Advancing Health Information Technology ( )
- Prepared Statement Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary ( )
- Testimony of Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen – Hearing on “The Foreign Investment Climate in China: U.S. Administration Perspectives on the Foreign Investment Climate in China” ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Cramming on Wireless Phone Bills: A Review of Consumer Protection Practices and Gaps ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On "Oversight of the Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws" ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Concerning "Oversight of the Impact on Competition of Exclusion Orders To Enforce Standard-Essential Patents" ( )
- Statement of Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen on "The Need for Privacy Protections: Perspectives from the Administration and the Federal Trade Commission" ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On The State of Online Consumer Privacy ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Do Not Track ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On "How Pay-For-Delay Settlements Make Consumers and the Federal Government Pay More For Much Needed Drugs" ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On the Commission's Law Enforcement and Consumer Education Efforts To Address Spyware and Other Malware ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Internet, and Intellectual Property ( )
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Generic Drug Entry ( )
