{"id":6331,"date":"2024-08-14T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/us-authorities-considering-breaking-up-google-reports\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:38:38","slug":"us-authorities-considering-breaking-up-google-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/us-authorities-considering-breaking-up-google-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"US authorities considering breaking up Google \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice is considering breaking up Google, according to reports from Bloomberg, the New York Times and others.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a federal court in the US ruled the tech giant had broken antitrust law by spending billions on creating an illegal monopoly and becoming the world&#8217;s default search engine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The ruling is seen as the first big win for authorities taking on the dominance of Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice&#8217;s other options include forcing Alphabet&#8217;s <strong>Google<\/strong> to share data with competitors and instating measures to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage in AI products, the reports said, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/>Spectacular meteor shower makes sky glow<\/strong><br \/><strong>Pregnant women urged to get vaccine<\/strong><br \/><strong>Two astronauts stuck in space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breaking off the Android operating system, AdWords, Google&#8217;s search ad program, or the Chrome web browser are all options being discussed, according to the reports.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, Amazon and Apple have all had legal action brought against them by antitrust regulators in the past four years for their domination of their markets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft had settled with the Department of Justice in 2004 on claims it forced its Internet Explorer Web browser on Windows users.<\/p>\n<p>Google and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice is considering breaking up Google, according to reports from Bloomberg, the New York Times and others. Last week, a federal court in the US ruled the tech giant had broken antitrust law by spending billions on creating an illegal monopoly and becoming the world&#8217;s default search engine. The ruling is <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}