google data practice

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,…

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…