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Today is Friday, November 22nd. Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Friday, November 22nd,

and this is your F.T. news briefing.

Google might hit a roadblock when it comes

to its multi-billion dollar deal for Fitbit.

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TD Ameritrade. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

Politicians and privacy campaigners aren't too keen on the idea of Google buying Fitbit

and getting the data that comes with the deal. Google is looking to snap up the

fitness tracker for just a shade over two2 billion. But getting control of Fitbit

means getting the health information of 27 million Fitbit users. Heart rates,

physical activity, and sleep data that would all go to Google, allowing it to create a new range of personalized health services.

And so, privacy and antitrust advocates have asked the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal.

The Open Markets Institute, Public Citizen, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center

say that combining sensitive health data with Google's current services could quote entrench its monopoly power.

Google's deal for Fitbit puts it in a good place to catch up to Apple when it comes to

wearable devices. Apple shipped a little more than 5 million watches in the second quarter.

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