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Google Maps Face Renewed Scrutiny by DOJ’s Antitrust Lawyers
24Feb By adminNo Comments
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Google Maps Face Renewed Scrutiny by DOJ’s Antitrust Lawyers

[ad_1] The US Justice Department is investigating Google's dominance in mapping, reviving a thread of its long-running antitrust investigation into the search giant, according to three people familiar with the probe. Department lawyers have been seeking information and reinterviewing potential witnesses, the people said, speaking anonymously to discuss a pending investigation. The probe is focused on how Alphabet Inc.'s Google bundles its services, and could result in a new antitrust complaint, they said. The development shows the Justice Department is continuing to scrutinize some of Google's most popular products, even after filing two major antitrust suits against the company. Google's terms of service require developers to use its maps and search products together. The limit...
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Google tees up venue clash over U.S. advertising antitrust lawsuit
3Feb By adminNo Comments
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Google tees up venue clash over U.S. advertising antitrust lawsuit

[ad_1] Lawyers for Alphabet Inc's Google LLC on Wednesday said they will ask a federal judge in Virginia to move the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit to Manhattan federal court, where the company is already fighting claims that it has abused its market power for online advertising technology. In a filing in the Manhattan litigation, Google's attorneys said transferring the lawsuit was necessary for "judicial efficiency and to mitigate the obvious risk of inconsistent judgments." Google said the new DOJ case, filed jointly with eight states last month, which also alleges advertising-related abuses, overlaps with multidistrict litigation in New York that formed in 2021. Google's planned effort sets up an early possible flashpoint in the new lawsuit. The DOJ can be expecte...
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German watchdog raps Google over user data practices
12Jan By adminNo Comments
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German watchdog raps Google over user data practices

[ad_1] Germany's antitrust regulator on Wednesday criticised the way Google handles users' data and threatened action against the US tech giant. Germany's antitrust regulator on Wednesday criticised the way Google handles users' data and threatened action against the US tech giant. Data collected by Google was used to "create very detailed user profiles which the company can exploit for advertising and other purposes", the Federal Cartel Authority said. Based on a preliminary assessment, the watchdog determined that users were not given sufficient clarity on the "far-reaching processing of their data across services" by the tech company. "General and indiscriminate data retention... is not permissible" without giving users choice, the watchdog said. The Federal Cartel Authorit...
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Google must remove ‘manifestly inaccurate’ data, EU top court says
10Dec By adminNo Comments
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Google must remove ‘manifestly inaccurate’ data, EU top court says

[ad_1] Alphabet unit Google must remove data from online search results if users can prove it is inaccurate, Europe's top court said. Alphabet unit Google must remove data from online search results if users can prove it is inaccurate, Europe's top court said on Thursday. Free speech advocates and supporters of privacy rights have clashed in recent years over people's "right to be forgotten" online, meaning that they should be able to remove their digital traces from the internet. The case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerned two executives from a group of investment companies who had asked Google to remove search results linking their names to certain articles criticising the group's investment model. They also wanted Google to remove thumbnail ph...
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