Germany’s Federal Cartel Office mentioned it was analyzing Google’s use of non-public knowledge and its Google News Showcase product beneath its new powers to manage web firms, and was additionally contemplating circumstances involving Amazon, Apple, and Facebook proprietor Meta.
The regulator mentioned on Wednesday it had decided that Google’s proprietor Alphabet met the size threshold required for an organization to be topic to new prolonged supervisory powers to manage giant Internet firms that it acquired final yr.
“The Federal Cartel Office can now tackle concrete forms of behaviour that harm competition,” workplace president Andreas Mundt mentioned. “We have already started looking more intensively at Google’s processing of personal data and the topic of Google News Showcase.”
He added that Federal Cartel Office was additionally contemplating additional circumstances involving Amazon, Apple, and Facebook proprietor Meta.
The workplace started taking a look at Google’s use of non-public knowledge in May final yr and on the choice of information supplied beneath Google News Showcase in June.
© Thomson Reuters 2022
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