
Samuel Levine
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Senior Fellow, @UCBConsumerLaw. Former Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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29-08-2012 14:25:31
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1/ In today’s digital economy, enforcers must keep pace. Lina Khan Samuel Levine and I explain how the FTC shifted away from “notice and choice” toward protections that address upstream drivers of data abuse in Stanford Law Review: stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/…



Thanks to Ross Douthat for the rich discussion, exploring how monopolies can both raise prices and lower wages—but also deprive Americans of agency and control, where key decisions about people’s daily lives are dependent on the whims of distant giants.





I testified in the Senate this week about antitrust + deregulation. I urged Congress, Antitrust Division, and FTC to focus on the biggest, most intractable competition problems driving the cost-of-living crisis. Why? They’re uniquely suited to do it. And because regular people can’t


The Reagan administration defanged consumer protection, a legacy that lasted for decades. One result has been vast surveillance & rampant abuse of people’s personal data. New article Stanford Law Review with Samuel Levine & Stephanie T. Nguyen explains how we turned the page on this failed approach.

