“Given Amazon’s track record of violating customers’ privacy and their continued history of anticompetitive acquisitions to expand their monopolistic power,” the legislators wrote, “the FTC should utilize its powers to block the Amazon-iRobot deal.”
Chair Khan, whose critiques of Amazon’s market strength propelled her to notoriety, would lead these probes. Khan released a legal brief in 2017 saying that the federal government may need to establish new antitrust regulations to effectively confront online digital platforms like Amazon’s market dominance.
