Google Facing Antitrust Investigation by 50 US States and Territories

After beingness fined effectually $9 billion by the European Commission and Rs. 136 crore (around $20 one thousand thousand) by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) over the past few years for monopolistic trade practices and privacy breaches, Google is at present facing fifty-fifty bigger problems at domicile. The company is now faced with a articulation antitrust investigation by 50 US states and territories, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The only two states non involved in the investigation are California and Alabama.

The leader of the initiative is Texas Chaser General, Ken Paxton, who made the announcement to the media on Monday alongside a number of other state attorneys general and investigators. According to him, the investigation was necessary because Google "dominates all aspects of advertising on the Net and searching on the Internet". "They dominate the buyer side, the seller side, the auction side and the video side with YouTube", he said.

Google declined to comment on the developments, but pointed The Washington Postal service to its previous statements proverb it will piece of work with state officials.

The investigation is the latest in a long serial of high-profile probes into the way the company conducts its business organisation, which has often come under the scanner of public regulators and anti-monopoly activists, non to mention various privacy watchdogs from around the world. The earlier antitrust investigation into the company past US regime was wrapped upwardly six years agone without whatsoever major penalties, but it will be interesting to come across if information technology volition be every bit lucky this fourth dimension around.