Prior to Google's settlement, the largest civil FTC penalty for a children's data-privacy case was a $5.7 million for a case in February involving social media app TikTok.

At the conclusion of an ambitious, two-year antitrust investigation by the United States government, search giant Google is getting away relatively scot-free. The Federal Trade Commission's probe ...

The FTC's reported closing of its Google search bias investigation, with no real enforceable settlement mechanism, and a special new self-enforcement ...

The FTC has its defenders, who argue that despite Google’s commanding position in the search market — nearly 70 percent of queries happen on its service — many of the changes that have ...

Kudos to the FTC for ending its Google antitrust investigation, but its ill-advised initial decision to investigate offers valuable lessons for other antitrust regulators.

The FTC objected to this “all-or-nothing choice” and forced Google to allow Yelp to pull its data from Google’s verticals without penalty. This is, indeed, precisely the remedy recommended ...

Though it should be said that at no point does the FTC outright say that Google should be broken up, any lay reader with a knowledge of U.S. antitrust law and English can reasonably come to that ...

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it won't block Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick. The vote was 4 to 1 to close the 8 month investigation. According to the FTC's ...

The FTC says Google has agreed to “meet its prior commitments” to give its competitors fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory access to patents deemed essential to industry standards.

Google has a preliminary deal in place with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to pay a $22.5 million fine for evading some privacy settings on Apple's Safari Web browser, a source with knowledge ...

Google tells the FTC that Microsoft exclusively hosting OpenAI tech could cost customers more money. The main issue that Google seems to take with Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI appears to ...

The FTC eagerly sought the investigation in 2011, elbowing aside the antitrust division of the Justice Department and hiring a high-profile litigator to prepare a case against Google.