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Google is worried an antitrust probe will reveal its secrets
We're all accustomed to everyday users, competitors, regulators, and even governments looking for assurances that their important data would be protected against Google's misuse – but how often does Google have to raise its voice, to make sure its sensitive information is protected out there in the world?
Well – the shoe seems to be well on the other foot here, in a probe conducted in Texas into allegations of the giant's antitrust behavior.
According to a report from the Hill, Google is very eager to make sure that third parties, i.e., consultants hired by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to help build the case, “won't leak any confidential information to Google's rivals.”
And who knows it better than Google how “sharing” sensitive data with third parties can negatively affect those the data belongs to – Google routinely does it to their billions of users. In fact, its dominance in the tech market in many segments in the US, and in the western world, is squarely built on that “sharing” business model.
But now that a multi-state probe filed in Texas is underway, Google, formally its parent Alphabet, have their feathers ruffled at the very thought.
Google has asked the judge to impose “an order limiting how much sensitive business information the two consultants can obtain and preventing them from working with Google competitors during or after the investigation,” the Hill writes.
The subtle assertion that Google, in its core businesses, actually has any competitors in the US market aside – the giant's petition cites what appear to be rivals rather than true competitors – America's News Corp and Microsoft, and Russia's Yandex – and consultants who previously worked on these company's cases against Google.
In the petition, Google says that two of the Attorney General's consultants “work for competitors and complainants.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:52AM (4 children)
Can you discredit this story, asshole? No? So, you have nothing to add to the submission? Who is stupider, you or your nemesis, Runaway1956?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:58AM
Fuck reklaimthenet and the Brave browser. Both of them just exploit the netizens and provide nothing in return. You're just an useful idiot to them.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @08:02AM (1 child)
The obvious rebuttal is, Runaway1956. As George Carlin said, you take the average person, and you realize that half of people are stupider than that, but none are more stupid that Runaway. And now SoylentNews is following this asshole into the Devil's Anus, and it is not some portal to another part of the galaxy, it is just Brietbarf. Standby for actual refudiation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @10:58AM
Praise janitock, he likes that anus so much he wants everybody to have a share.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday November 04 2019, @08:57AM
> Can you discredit this story
Well, there's this line:
> And who knows it better than Google how “sharing” sensitive data with third parties can negatively affect those the data belongs to – Google routinely does it to their billions of users.
Google doesn't sell or share user data. Google uses user data to target ads, which Google sells. There's a pretty important distinction there for people who care about facts.
Oh, by the way, users can allow third party extensions to access their data. I suppose that is a case where Google is sharing user data with third parties, under the explicit request from the user, or alternatively, the user is sharing their data with third parties, which is stored by Google. Again, there's a pretty important distinction there for people who care about facts.
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