FTC Chair Edith Ramirez Fights for Data Security and Privacy Rights

A Q&A with Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez. She is putting the agency front and center as the nation’s leading enforcer on privacy and data security.

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Chairman Walden Fears Rough Waters Ahead for FCC

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler agreed to be the lone witness at the House Communications Subcommittee FCC oversight hearing May 20, where he could hear it from both sides of the aisle on network neutrality, and Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) indicated May 19 that it was not going to be a triumphal return for Chairman Wheeler.

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FCC’s Wheeler is No Shrinking Violet

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler does not think small.

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President Obama ‘remains committed’ to network neutrality

“President Obama remains committed to an open internet, where consumers are free to choose the websites they want to visit and the online services they want to use, and where online innovators are allowed to compete on a level playing field based on the quality of their products.”

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New FCC chairman Tom Wheeler starts term on pro-consumer note

There are few jobs in the US government with more power to help or harm the country's tech landscape than the chairmanship of the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that ultimately decides how telecoms and cable companies go about their business. And Tom Wheeler starts his five-year stint at the helm of the FCC under a fair amount of scrutiny: a former lobbyist for both the cable and wireless industries, it's easy to extrapolate that the President Obama-nominated venture capitalist might not have the best interest of consumers in mind. But are the fears unfounded?

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What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Want You to Know

By now it seems pretty clear that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a plan to occupy the White House. But he doesn't want people to know too much about it. And he definitely doesn't want you to know about the special interests that have already begun to bankroll his political ambitions. That's why the Texas senator's latest crusade targets the Federal Communications Commission -- and its efforts to better identify the funders of political ads.

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House committee to debate future of FTC

The four current members of the Federal Trade Commission will testify at a hearing being held by the House Commerce subcommittee on Trade. The hearing -- entitled “The FTC at 100: Where Do We Go from Here?” -- will examine the competition and consumer protection agency’s mission, budget and authority as it enters its second century.

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Justice Scalia uses the Internet. And he thinks you people on it are narcissists.

In a lengthy interview with New York Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he uses the Internet -- but doesn't seem particularly thrilled by what he sees.

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Inside Comcast’s $30 Billion TV Bet

In the two years since Comcast bought NBCUniversal, Steve Burke has shown a zeal for shaking things up with little sentimentality, weeding out some of the company's most well-known personalities in the process.

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Netflix executive upends Hollywood

The man at the center of Netflix's transformation from DVD-by-mail service to Internet TV network, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, seems to take pleasure in upending industry conventions.

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