"The Federal Trade Commission, a US agency created in 1914 to police the problem of 'bigness', has evolved into the most important regulator of information privacy - and thus innovation policy - in the world. Its policies profoundly affect business practices and serve to regulate most of the...

The ubiquity of mobile phones has long promised to spell the success of mobile payment platforms — a world in which the phone is a universal currency and no one needs plastic. While such predictions have proven mostly fruitless in the past, there is increasing evidence that the next few years...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not of a single mind on privacy matters. Its privacy efforts are led by attorneys in the agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection, who are entrusted with case selection. These privacy efforts are evaluated by economists in the agency's Bureau of Economics, who...