Google Subpoenaed Over Data Privacy, Antitrust in Missouri (cnbc.com) 18
Google is facing a new front in its regulatory battles after Missouri's attorney general on Monday launched a broad investigation into whether the company's business practices violate the state's consumer-protection and antitrust laws. From a report: Attorney General Josh Hawley's office said on Monday that it issued a subpoena to investigate if Google's use of information that it collects about consumers is appropriate and if the company stifles competing websites in search results. Google has largely steered clear of antitrust problems in the U.S. That's not the case in Europe, where the company faces a fine of about $2.7 billion over the display of its shopping ads.
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Google is within its rights to collect whatever it wants from traffic going through its servers.
No, it's not. This is why, for example, the EU has privacy laws and is tightening them (the GDPR will come into effect next May).
Nobody is required to use Google. Therefore it has no monopoly.
Sadly, this is not true. By using (for example) Google Analytics, it's the website owner chat chooses my information to be collected, not I. I have no choice in this. At most, I can try to find websites that don't track me, but these are increasingly rare these days and not a viable choice.
This lack of choice for information subjects is the reason that privacy laws exist: the peop
"Give us the information..." (Score:2)
"Give us the information, so we can see if you are sharing the information with anyone!"
Uh... yeah... we realize Missouri is "The Show Me State" and all, but if we gave you the information, then it would mean that, yes, we shared information with someone: "Those Guys In Missouri".