Open Markets highlights concerns over the potential for Big Tech to use payments for self-preferencing and steering, extractive business practices, enhanced data for manipulative algorithms and the potential for financial surveillance.
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Open Markets applauds the FTC for demonstrating a commitment to ensuring the resiliency and robustness of the semiconductor industry.
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Letter details how monopolization of key parts of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry is causing political and economic harm, and what the Biden administration can do about it.
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26 years later, the FTC reinstates the “Prior Approval Policy” taking back the power to restrict anticompetitive mergers.
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Open Markets Institute submitted a comment to the USDA putting forth gratitude for seeking public input on how to invest in a more robust, diverse, and competitive meatpacking sector.
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Open Markets filed a public comment letter with the U.S. Treasury Department calling on the Biden administration to reinforce state control over alcohol markets.
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The Open Markets Institute and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), filed a comment with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on October 23, 2019 in response to their workshop on competition in labor markets explaining how federal antitrust enforcers should use their power to support American workers.
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The Open Markets Institute filed a comment to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) exposing how manufacturers - of everything from cellphones to tractors – monopolize markets for parts and service, shutting out independent technicians, driving up repair costs, and sending more goods to landfills.
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Open Markets has submitted a public comment on February 27, 2019 to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the FTC’s 3-2 clearance of the Staples-Essendant Merger.
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The Open Markets Institute submitted a comment to the Federal Trade Commission to underscore the need for new agency guidelines on vertical mergers and explain that the Department of Justice’s 1968 Merger Guidelines are a template on which the agencies should build.
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On September 28, 2018, Facebook, Inc. announced that 50 million users had been compromised in a massive data breach that put their entire accounts in the hands of unknown rogue actors. An additional 40 million users also had their accounts reset due to uncertainty about the scope of the breach.
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Open Markets, in conjunction with the New Approaches to Economic Challenges initiative (NAEC) of the OECD, co-hosted a webcast Thursday, April 23 to discuss how to ensure that all vital production systems are built to withstand pandemics, natural disasters, political conflicts, and other shocks.
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Open Markets Institute, Public Knowledge, Common Cause, the Writer's Guild of America and the Consumers Union has filed a public comment to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile.
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The Open Markets Institute submitted three comments to the Federal Trade Commission for its upcoming "Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century." Read those comments here.
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The Freedom From Facebook coalition, spearheaded by the Open Markets Institute, submitted a letter to the Federal Trade Commission's "Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century" Hearing on August 20, 2018.
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Read the public comment that the Open Markets Institute, along with the Roosevelt Institute and the Economic Policy Institute, submitted to the Federal Trade Commission regarding its proposed settlement in the Your Therapy Source matter.
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In the letter, OMI expressed concern over the proposed change that could inflict additional economic hardship on patients and their families and threaten patient health.
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Read the Open Markets Institute's public comments to the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division for the agency's roundtable on anticompetitive regulations.
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