While we applaud the FTC for exercising its authority to investigate clear privacy harms, and as a pathway to seeking privacy policy answers, this settlement has the potential to actually damage transparency and innovation in the privacy space.

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Esa's science budget - the part that makes space telescopes to study the cosmos, and the like - received a "flat cash" settlement of 2.5bn euros.

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