While it rarely prevents the FTC from getting the data or sorting out the issues, the process can take longer than the eight months it took the FTC to review and approve this deal.

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They're handing them out in Redmond, according to one mildly injured researcher, after breaking a data sorting record Yahoo set in 2009.

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