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"Destroy all location data": FTC head Lina Khan takes on data brokers with groundbreaking medical tracking ban

Senator Elizabeth Warren, an antitrust hawk, expressed disappointment with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's decision to allow pharmaceutical firm Amgen to move forward with its acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics. Warren, a Democrat, has staunchly supported the FTC and Justice Department's tougher stance on mergers under President Joe Biden. In a rare break with the Biden administration's antitrust enforcers, she urged them to get even tougher.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has allowed Amgen to continue its $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, while preventing the drugmaker from using anticompetitive tactics to extend the market dominance of two Horizon drugs. The agreement, announced on Friday, ends months of uncertainty over the deal since the FTC in May filed a lawsuit over concerns that Amgen would leverage its drugs to secure favorable insurance coverage terms for Horizon's thyroid eye disease treatment Tepezza and gout drug Krystexxa. Under the FTC settlement, Amgen is prohibited from bundling any...

Microsoft settles FTC charges for $20 million over illegal collection of personal information from children without parental consent.

The settlements resolve long-standing claims that the First Nations did not receive all the lands owed to them under Treaty 8, which they signed in 1899, government officials said.