In the light of existing or pending Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigations against Twitter, Facebook and Google, a new petition from regulatory watchdog Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE) seeks to better protect US-based Internet companies from unnecessary investigations by calling for clearly defined acts or practices which are considered unacceptable.The CRE specifies that as the FTC has the authority to ban acts or practices that cause "substantial injury to consumers which is n [...]

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