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German antitrust watchdog probes Google over Information Usage

BERLIN: Germany’s antitrust watchdog has launched a probe into whether Google Germany, Google Ireland along with its parent firm Alphabet are harnessing their market dominance in how that they manage information, ” said on Tuesday. The Federal Cartel Office said the analysis would consider if the technology giant provides users sufficient choice in the way that it utilizes their information across the broad assortment of electronic services it offers. Google said people utilize its services as they’re useful, since they are made to do this or because they can’t find any choices. “We offer people simple control over the way their data can be used and we restrict the usage of private data,” spokesman Ralf Bremer stated. The watchdog has forced use of improved powers it had been accorded under current reforms to Germany’s competition legislation to start new probes to Facebook and Amazon within their information practices. In Google’s case, it is going to assess whether its array of electronic services, spanning investigation, YouTube, Maps, its own Android smartphone operating platform and Safari browser, imply the firm has a dominant place across markets. The watchdog has now sought to deal with user information as a contest problem, a situation challenged by critics that say that the thing falls under the purview of the EU’s privacy legislation.

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