{"id":21840,"date":"2020-02-10T20:26:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T04:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2020-02-10T20:26:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T04:26:54","slug":"republican-proposes-ftc-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21840","title":{"rendered":"Republican proposes FTC overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in a proposal published Monday accused the country&#8217;s top consumer protection agency &#8212; the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) &#8212; of failing to intervene as the world&#8217;s most powerful tech companies amassed reams of personal information about their millions of U.S. users and gobbled up hundreds of smaller companies.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Hawley is proposing a total overhaul of the FTC, an effort to streamline and beef up the federal government&#8217;s ability to take on large, valuable tech companies like Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is time for Congress to overhaul the FTC and bring it into the 21st century,&#8221; reads the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/cldqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzqhlhjg_ofltwwjzjdtwmtjmkltt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/cldqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzqhlhjg_ofltwwjzjdtwmtjmkltt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1581480397577000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQraqGcgCTu6tXhSnFt9gRODgwlg\">plan published by Hawley&#8217;s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal says the FTC in its current structure &#8220;lacks teeth,&#8221; has a &#8220;divided&#8221; jurisdiction, and &#8220;wastes time in turf wars with the Department of Justice (DOJ).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hawley&#8217;s proposal would relocate the FTC to the DOJ, replace the five-member commission with a single director, and offer the agency a new set of tools to specifically take on Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FTC has proven lethargic, unwieldy, susceptible to agency capture, and prone to turf wars,&#8221; Hawley&#8217;s office wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley&#8217;s office told The Hill the senator will propose legislation similar to the proposal in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21841,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions\/21841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}