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Will Google Be Dismantled?
Hello all, and happy Thursday!
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Hello all, and happy Thursday!
One of our stories this week focuses on a potential development that would truly shake the foundation of the internet—the Department of Justice may dismantle Google’s search business from Chrome, Android, and Google Play. The court filing comes on the heels of a ruling indicating that Google’s search business is anticompetitive. By default, other tech companies present Google as their search engine of choice as a result of exclusivity contracts with Google, a practice that courts have found to be anticompetitive.
The ramifications of this breakup would be significant, but from a data privacy perspective, there are a few potential consequences. For one, Google would lose access to a significant lead in the race for AI technologies. Given Google’s dominance in search, it has an incredible advantage in AI model development through easy access to search data for model training.
Meanwhile, Google asserts that these changes would force it to share user search data with competitors, impacting users’ privacy.
As momentous as this proposed antitrust action is, it’s almost certainly not going to happen anytime soon. Rather, we’re in for a long legal battle that will take quite a while to figure out. We’ll certainly be watching to see what ramifications there may be for you and your data no matter what the outcome.
Best,
Arlo
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US Department of Justice May Consider Breaking Up Google
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California Governor Signs Three Bills Amending CCPA Provisions on Sensitive Information and Opt-Out Preferences in the Context of Mergers
During the final days of the California legislative session, the California legislature passed several privacy bills that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Notably, Governor Newsom signed important bills adding neural data to the definition of sensitive data and requiring entities that acquire personal information in a merger to respect opt-out choices that consumers made with the acquiring entity.
ICO Launches New Data Protection Audit Framework
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China-linked Security Breach Targeted U.S. Wiretap Systems
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