Big Data in a Competition Environment

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Deborah Feinstein, May 29, 2015

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is one agency with two missions: promoting competition and protecting consumers. Of course, competition and consumer protection laws have at their core the same fundamental goal: to promote consumer welfare through fair and vigorous competition unaltered by false, deceptive, or unfair tactics. In some circumstances, a particular set of facts may raise both competiti