It will be consulting with international regulators, including the US Federal Trade Commission, on commercial uses of consumer data.

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An earlier US Federal Trade Commission investigation into how Google displayed links to its services concluded there was no competition issue.

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When Google was fined by the US Federal Trade Commission in 2012, chairman Jon Leibowitz said that all companies must "keep their privacy promises to customers".

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It should be noted that the US Federal Trade Commission is still examining the one billion dollar takeover and is expected to report on the issue at some point in 2013.

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Jon Leibowitz, the Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) met with Joaquin Almunia, the vice-president of the European Commission to discuss Google - the dominant company on today's Internet.

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In January, the US Federal Trade Commission ended its anti-trust investigation and won a pledge from Google to end some practices, such as scraping data from websites to help target adverts, that had triggered the competition probe.

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In a measure that goes further than the voluntary terms agreed with the US Federal Trade Commission, Google has also promised to set up a tool for sites to remove up to 10 per cent of a site's content from vertical search.

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The deal had already secured approval in the US from the Federal Trade Commission and in France.

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The suits have been filed in the US Federal District Court of Delaware, the US International Trade Commission and Germany's Regional Court in Dusseldorf.

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