Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen warned an audience at the American Bar Association’s spring meeting that competition law, in general, should not be used to address privacy concerns during a merger review, reports Law360. Antitrust is a “convoluted” solution to privacy problems at best, Ohlhausen said, encouraging antitrust enforcers to “continue to resist calls to consider concerns about privacy policies or movements of consumer data during merger probes unless the issue falls within the realm of economic efficiencies and competition that the merger laws are meant to address,” the report states. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
Full Story