The order “targets Big Tech” alright. But the negatives are nebulous at best:
“The order also expands Biden’s assault on Big Tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook. It establishes an administration-wide policy to scrutinize mergers more heavily, including completed mergers. It zeroes-in on so-called ‘killer acquisitions’ involving nascent competitors, the kind of deal critics say Facebook engaged in when it bought Instagram and WhatsApp.
“It takes aim at a key Silicon Valley business model: The collection and use of large amounts of consumer data, and the incentive for tech companies with multiple lines of business to cross-promote their own services at the expense of competition.”
The Only Definite Winner in Biden s Competition Executive Order? Anti-Competitive Big Tech – RedState
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It s once again time for Congress to start posturing about not taking a month off
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Does the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the FDCPA) apply to communications between a debt collector and its vendors? And, is the FDCPA a consumer privacy statute? In an apparent issue of first impression, the Eleventh Circuit answered a resounding
yes.
In an April 21, 2021 opinion:
Richard Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., the Eleventh Circuit ruled that a debt collector’s transmittal of a consumer’s personal information to a dunning vendor was a third-party communication in violation of 15 U.S.C. § 1692c(b).
This opinion has the potential to upend the way debt collectors – including financial institutions that may be considered a debt collector under the FDCPA – run their businesses. At least in the short term, this opinion will likely result in a new wave of FDCPA class action lawsuits, particularly in the Eleventh Circuit (Alabama, Florida, and Georgia).
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step.
People demonstrate for municipal internet outside City Hall in Portland, Oregon, January 14, 2018.
Doug Seacat, founder of the Ridgway, Coloradoâbased IT consulting company Deeply Digital, got a call several years ago from one of his biggest clients. CenturyLink, the only internet service provider in the region, initially said it could provide him a high-speed fiber connection, but then decided it couldnât.