{"id":5009,"date":"2024-10-09T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/09\/google-faces-threat-of-being-broken-up-after-us-justice-department-warns-of-need-to-end-illegal-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:00:35","slug":"google-faces-threat-of-being-broken-up-after-us-justice-department-warns-of-need-to-end-illegal-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/09\/google-faces-threat-of-being-broken-up-after-us-justice-department-warns-of-need-to-end-illegal-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Google faces threat of being broken up after US Justice Department warns of need to end \u2018illegal monopoly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US officials have confirmed they are considering breaking up Google\u2019s \u201cillegal monopoly\u201d of internet searches.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant could face restrictions on its own products \u2013 including its Chrome browser, Play Store and Android operating system, the US Justice Department said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>It comes after a judge found in August the company had broken anti-trust laws to ensure its dominance of online searches.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have now outlined a series of proposals to dismantle the company\u2019s monopoly in a court filing.<\/p>\n<p>The plans include blocking <strong>Google<\/strong> from paying other tech firms to have its search engine pre-installed or set as the default option on new devices.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The firm paid out more than $26bn (\u00a320bn) in 2021 to companies such as iPhone maker <strong>Apple<\/strong> as part of the practice.<\/p>\n<p>A Justice Department spokesperson said: \u201cFully remedying these harms requires not only ending Google\u2019s control of distribution today, but also ensuring Google cannot control the distribution of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google said the court filing was part of a \u201clong process\u201d and confirmed it would appeal against the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Lee-Anne Mulholland, the company\u2019s vice president of regulatory affairs, said the \u201cradical changes\u201d proposed went too far and accused the US government of having a \u201csweeping agenda that will impact numerous industries and products\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She added the move would risk the privacy and security of users, hamper the development of its artificial intelligence products and \u201cbreak\u201d software such as Android.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s announcement comes <strong>following earlier reports<\/strong> that officials were considering moves to tackle Google\u2019s monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a separate case on Monday, a judge ordered Google must open up its app store to greater competition, including making Android apps available from rival sources.<\/p>\n<p>Judge James Donato said the firm should stop requiring its own payment system to be used for apps on the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling follows a court battle between <strong>Google and Epic Games<\/strong>, which makes the popular video game Fortnite, over in-app purchases.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials have confirmed they are considering breaking up Google\u2019s \u201cillegal monopoly\u201d of internet searches.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}