Google Sues India's Competition Commission - For Sharing Its Findings About Google (msn.com) 18
Google used its "huge financial muscle" to illegally hurt competitors, the Competition Commission of India found after an antitrust investigation. But now Reuters says Google is suing the commission — for leaking the results of that investigation to the press:
"We cooperated fully and maintained confidentiality throughout the investigative process, and we hope and expect the same level of confidentiality from the institutions we engage with," Google's statement added...
India's antitrust authority ordered a probe in 2019, saying Google appeared to have leveraged its dominance to reduce device makers' ability to opt for alternate versions of its mobile operating system and force them to pre-install Google apps. Its 750-page report subsequently found the mandatory pre-installation of apps "amounts to imposition of unfair condition on the device manufacturers" in violation of India's competition law. The report, which has been seen by Reuters but which is not public, also found the company leveraged the position of its Play Store app store to protect its dominance.
India's antitrust authority ordered a probe in 2019, saying Google appeared to have leveraged its dominance to reduce device makers' ability to opt for alternate versions of its mobile operating system and force them to pre-install Google apps. Its 750-page report subsequently found the mandatory pre-installation of apps "amounts to imposition of unfair condition on the device manufacturers" in violation of India's competition law. The report, which has been seen by Reuters but which is not public, also found the company leveraged the position of its Play Store app store to protect its dominance.
Frivolous lawsuit (Score:1, Funny)
Lock the lawyers up!
Google index's everything. (opps) (Score:1)
Just Like the Retailers` (Score:1, Insightful)
For smaller organizations, this is a losing proposition -- it disturbs the current and potential client base when they learn of this negative behaviour to those who fund the organization.
Google is not a smaller organization and it's customers are really the business that pays based on clicks
Fuck Google!
If I wasn't already, I guess that now I'm on
Lol (Score:3)
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Google will learn the hard way that India is not US.
The US is a poor example, because we they very lax privacy laws here.
Court documents for example default to being public, unless a judge explicitly seals records.
You can be 100% certain what information will be public because of the assumption all of it will be public.
That and the US doesn't collectively think of simple things like your name as secret private information. Nobody would ever expect it to be, so there is never complaints when others know your name.
In India their sealed court records are suppo
How American ... (Score:2)
Why do American companies think they have the right to sue regulators for enforcing laws?
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Lack of pushback from the courts
Re:How American ... (Score:4, Informative)
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Who says it should be 'confidential'? Just because Google want the findings kept confidential doesn't make it so. This was the finding of the investigation. I expect that Indian tax payers think differently.
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Be warned (Score:2)
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Break up google, microsoft etc (Score:3)
This is why the OS vendor should be separated from apps.
Good luck with that... (Score:2)
...India is just as tired of your shit as everybody else.
Ahem... (Score:4, Interesting)
So it turns out Google does value privacy after all. No no.... not yours... just their own.
Google Does Not Understand (Score:1)
The kids at Google fail to understand that government agencies leak worse than a roofless shelter in the middle of a summer monsoon downpour.
So anything the kids at Google share with any government agency in any country is bound to be released to the general public at some point.
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