Lauren Feiner Profile and Activity

Senior Policy Reporter

Lauren Feiner is the senior policy reporter at The Verge, where she covers the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill from Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she spent five years at CNBC, where she covered the Google search antitrust trial, industry lobbying, tech Supreme Court cases, and many efforts to enact new privacy, antitrust, and content moderation laws.

When she's not writing about Congress, she's probably catching up on her many podcasts on 2x speed.

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Microsoft is being investigated by the FTC over antitrust concerns

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Nov 27|

Lauren Feiner Nov 27

Smart device-makers aren’t sharing how long their products will update.

That’s what the Federal Trade Commission found in a review of product sites for 184 connected devices. Nearly 89 percent failed to disclose how long they’d keep getting software updates. The FTC says that for products with written warranties, this could potentially violate the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act, which governs what warranties need to disclose to prospective buyers.

Tech

xAI could soon have its own app

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Nov 27|

Tech

A Chinese ship is suspected of sabotaging undersea cables

Lauren Feiner

Nov 27|

Breaking down the DOJ’s plan to end Google’s search monopoly

Selling Chrome might not be the most painful part of the DOJ’s antitrust demands for Google.

Lauren Feiner

Nov 27|

Policy

US v. Google redux: all the news from the ad tech trial

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Nov 26|

Google and the DOJ make their final arguments in the ad tech monopoly case

“Google is once, twice, three times a monopolist,” the DOJ says.

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Nov 25|

Tech

The Supreme Court will decide the fate of America’s low-income broadband fund

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Nov 22|

Tech

Snap says New Mexico intentionally friended alleged child predators, then blamed the company

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Nov 22|

Lauren Feiner Nov 21

Apple and Google may have to verify users’ ages through their app stores under a coming bill.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. John James (R-MI) are prepping a new bill granting Meta’s wish of putting the onus for age verification on app store operators, The Washington Post reports. Parents could reportedly sue those companies if their kids are exposed to things like sexual material, but businesses could shield themselves by implementing age verification.

Analysis | Meta gains steam in its push to make Apple, Google verify users’ ages

[The Washington Post]