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EU about to sue Google

by on02 April 2015


Long expected anti-trust case 

The EU is pressing ahead with its plan to sue Google for anti-trust antics 

Google has been engaged in a five-year-old antitrust investigation with the European Union that has stalled multiple times and caused a political uproar between the US and the EU.

The EU wants to protect businesses in Europe, while the US wants everyone to do what its corporates tell them.

While European Union lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a motion in November urging anti-trust regulators to break up Google, the US Mission to the European Union had suggested that politicians should not influence the inquiry.

A panel of experts appointed by Google to advise it on how to implement EU's "right to be forgotten" ruling, had suggested in February that the links be removed only from websites in Europe.

European privacy regulators, however, want Internet search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing to scrub results globally, not just in Europe.

Either way it looks like the mess will only be cleared up when someone goes to court

Last modified on 02 April 2015
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