Robert Pitofsky Quotations

Many posted privacy statements are hard to locate, read, and understand, ... Further, other aspects of what have come to be known as fair information practices, like the requirement that online participants have a reasonable opportunity to see what information has been collected about them and to correct errors that creep into a database, have barely been addressed.

I can learn the person's social security number, occupation, the names and ages of the person's spouse and children, names of the person's names, the value of the person's home and property taxes paid on that home,

I have never believed in the European idea of national companies. They are inefficient. You want sharks, not whales. Big bloated companies don't do well.

I don't want the Federal Trade Commission to be the thought police, ... I don't want a bureaucrat like me influencing the content of these materials. But, rather, we need to influence the way these materials are marketed.

Without comprehensive federal legislation, it is possible that something of a vacuum will be created and states may enter, not always with consistent proposals, to protect the privacy of their citizens, ... There may soon come a point when the business community will have to decide whether it prefers a single comprehensive federal rule, or a situation in which a variety of state rules create difficult to follow mandates.

We have not given up on self-regulation, ... If it does not work out, we believe Congress should seriously consider legislation.

We are just starting the investigation. What we see is evidence that prices have spiked, and without an investigation we can't answer questions until that happens,

This settlement would preserve competition and protect consumers from higher cable service prices and reduced programming choices by ensuring that competing cable operators, new technologies and future programmers can gain access to Time Warner-Turner's customers and programming,

Experience with claims of efficiency defenses... indicates that efficiencies are often exaggerated and, perhaps even more often, can be achieved through non-merger routes.

While the proposed merger of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting is one of the biggest and most complicated deals that antitrust officials have reviewed, the central issue it raises can be summarized in one word: access,

We will attempt to discern whether these inflated prices that consumers are seeing at the pump result from any violation of the federal anti-trust price laws.

The technology changes so rapidly that you see new opportunities for exploitation of people occurring much more rapidly than the offline marketplace,

B2B electronic marketplaces offer great promise as means through which significant cost savings can be achieved, business processes can be more efficiently organized and competition may be enhanced,

Although the merger of BP and Amoco involves companies of enormous size, and there is a significant trend toward concentration in the petroleum industry, the operations of these two companies rarely overlap in a way that threatens competition.

This order is intended to ensure that this new medium, characterized by openness, diversity and freedom, will not be closed down as a result of this merger.

It's their documents. They knew what they were doing,

it should be clear that the burden of coming forward with adequate restructure proposals should be on the sponsors of the merger.

If self-regulation doesn't solve the problem and existing laws don't cut it, legislation respectful of the First Amendment must be considered,

if you have an intellectual property dispute, Intel cannot cut you off.

In the broad sense, our concern was that the merger of these two powerful companies would deny to competitors access to this amazing new broadband technology.

The commission reserves the right to approve the second and third ISP -- we don't want any weak sisters.