{"id":36804,"date":"2021-06-23T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36804"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:37:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:37:53","slug":"tech-antitrust-bills-create-strange-bedfellows-in-house-markup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36804","title":{"rendered":"Tech antitrust bills create strange bedfellows in House markup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An hours-long House Judiciary Committee markup Wednesday created unusual bipartisan alliances both for and against a package of bills targeting some of the country\u2019s biggest tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>The committee had advanced two of the six bills as of early Wednesday evening, with proceedings expected to stretch late into the night.<\/p>\n<p>The six bills aim to revamp antitrust laws, giving the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Justice Department greater authority to rein in the power of tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers did not firmly support or oppose all of the bills, with some crossing the aisle at times.<\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0Amy Klobuchar\u00a0(D-Minn.) wants to know more about how Amazon and Alphabet approach interoperability in connection with their smart-home devices and protect the user data that they collect.<\/p>\n<p>In letters sent to each of the tech giant\u2019s CEOs Wednesday, the chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee overseeing antitrust said that testimony by the companies\u2019 attorneys during a hearing last week had left her with worries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply concerned about competition and the future of innovation related to connected home devices,\u201d Klobuchar wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An hours-long House Judiciary Committee markup&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804","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=36804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36807,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804\/revisions\/36807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}