The FTC settlement with Google concerned the wording of some of their privacy disclosures.
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But the FTC is a relatively small agency and they can only bring so many cases.
Media outlets are likely to get their backs up if the FTC presses too hard.
Quite the reverse, in fact: In 12 months, the FTC has only publicly announced two investigations.
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The FTC didn't have recent figures on the number of complaints from consumers about mobile cramming.
The FTC footnoted the approach in its 122-page paper on online privacy this winter.
If the FTC is indeed investigating Twitter, they are likely to find this case pretty boring.
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The FTC gets exercised over weight-loss claims, while Coke wants consumers to do more heavy lifting.
In addition, in May, the FTC hired prominent litigator Beth Wilkinson to help lead the investigation.
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Update : After the press conference, the FTC issued a release on the settlement.
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Additionally, the FTC handed out a non-monetary prize to Google for a robo challenge achievement award.
Manne thinks there could be a much bigger consequence if the FTC actually files suit.
The FTC, at least four of the commissioners, he said, are very concerned about search.
Over the last decade, the FTC has brought over 100 spam and spyware cases.
How is that anti-competitive, or for that matter, as the FTC and The Times allege, anti-consumer?
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If the FTC really wants to help consumers, it needs to close the Google investigation.
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The FTC has thus far refused to make a comparable move with contact lenses.
The FTC's scrutiny follows a series of antitrust investigations of Intel's chip business around the world.
"The lack of enforcement on the FTC's part has been very troubling, " McCall says.
The FTC offered several theories for why people with low scores get in more accidents.
The FTC is trying to decide how the government should be regulating this.
This is far from the first time EPIC has asked the FTC to investigate Facebook.
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This year, however, Bernstein has decided the FTC will undertake its own follow-up study.
Yahoo was one of the companies that worked with the FTC to formulate the rules.
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Disney, which funds Toysmart, also said it supports the FTC rulings in a statement released yesterday.
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In the year to October the FTC identified what it believes to be 28 such settlements.
The FTC was asked to investigate whether Google was favouring its own products in search results.
The FTC has also involved itself in the core business operations of the Internet.
The FTC's proposed changes prohibit the use of behavioral marketing techniques that target children.
The FTC's decision also shows how anti-Google lobbying from rivals like Microsoft Corp.
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