Google spars with European lawmakers over privacy

At hearing, company's global privacy counsel assails officials, saying they're taking a privacy case and trying to "shoehorn it into a competition law review."

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[suyts]

Great,

"In the past six years, it has not turned down any all-U.S. deal approved by U.S. authorities."
Nice that those guys will let us do business the way we want to..... for now. Very comforting.

[Jim Harmon]

Shoe on the other foot

I wonder how they would feel if the FTC attempted to decline to permit two European companies from merging.