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FTC staff report on Google released by mistake

In March 2015 part of an FTC staff report on its 2012 Google investigation was released by mistake in answer to a records request, and reported by The Wall Street Journal.

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  • U.S. Federal Trade Commission released part of the report by mistake in answer to a Freedom of Information Act request; three commissioners said they regretted it and answered the press reports Primary record 123

    ICLE, a think tank, wrote that staff did not recommend suit on the central issue of search bias.

  • Google the company the report concerned; it declined to comment Scholarship & press 1
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  1. FTC Members Regret Release of Documents in Google Antitrust Probe (Reuters, via NBC News), NBC News, 25 Mar 2015. Scholarship & press
    Three Federal Trade Commission members said on Wednesday they regretted the inadvertent release of part of an agency report about its 2012 antitrust probe of Google.
    The agency said that it regretted the release of the documents, which were confidential and should not have been included in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
    Google declined comment on the commissioners' statement.
  2. Statement of Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, and Commissioners Julie Brill and Maureen K. Ohlhausen regarding the Google Investigation, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 25 Mar 2015. Primary record Archived copy
    all five Commissioners (three Democrats and two Republicans) agreed that there was no legal basis for action with respect to the main focus of the investigation – search.
    Some of the FTC’s staff attorneys on the search investigation raised concerns about several other Google practices. In response, the Commission obtained commitments from Google regarding certain of those practices.
  3. FTC Staff Report on Google: Much Ado About Nothing (Geoffrey Manne, International Center for Law & Economics), International Center for Law & Economics, 20 Mar 2015. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    Regardless, it also bears pointing out that the staff did not recommend the FTC bring suit on the central issue of search bias
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