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Google A few days before the hearing of a federal court, the justice department is targeting the efforts of the Department of Justice to overhala, senior officials of the company described the proposed reforms of the government as “wildly overbrors” and presented possible risks to consumers, businesses and national security landscapes.
A senior Google executive on Friday previewed the company’s counterpart in an interview with Fox News Digital, given that, in his view, in his view, the measures proposed by the Department of Justice are “wildly wide” and what was ordered in August, when American District Judge Amit Mehta mounted the government and ruled in the field of an illegal monopoly. Was.
The proposed measures structure of the Department of Justice include steps such as Chrome, Google’s Internet browser and possibly divided by Android; Requirements for Google to disclose your consumer data and consumer search questions with other companies for the next 10 years, Companies including Located outside America; And the broad option for “self-prioring”, which will limit the user’s access to innovative integration, including AI features, Google Translates, and Google lenses, which allow users to search by their photos or use their camera.
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A mobile phone is displaying a Google search on January 23, 2024 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Thilina Kalutheotage / Nurfoto Getty Image / Getty Image)
Justice department accused Google portrayed its search engine on its equipment automatically to maintain its monopoly by paying internet browsers and smartphone manufacturers, such as Apple and Samsung, to maintain its monopoly over the years.
And when the Google opposes the court’s decision, and planning to appeal to the case, the company also looks at the threat in the regulation-water treatment structure, which the government presented in the court, the Global Affairs President Kent Walker told Fox News Digital in an interview.
On the eve of the 15-day clear hearing, which closes in Washington, DC on Monday, Walker underlined Google’s concerns with the government’s plan-Given, in view that, in his view, the proposal to break Google’s search engine operation is the proposal of the Department of Justice beyond the order of relief by the Judge of the Federal Court.
“We are very concerned about the proposal of DOJ,” Walker told Fox News Digital. “We think it will harm American consumers, our economy, our technical leadership, even national security.”
Google authorities have described it as a “extreme offer” that will endanger security and privacy for millions of people; Cold investment in AI; And hurts innovative services, including Mozilla’s firefox, which depends on Google for search placement.
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E. Barrett Pritiman is seen in US Court House Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Image / Getty Images)
The proposed reform from the DOJ will be as a result of the unprecedented government that will harm American consumers, developers and small businesses – and will endanger the global economic and technical leadership of the US, exactly the moment. ” Said in a blog post Shortly after releasing Doj’s proposal.
In addition to the above mentioned steps, the reform proposal of DOJ includes comprehensive options for “self-profit”, which will limit the access of users to the currently bundled integrations within the Google Search-which includes AI results, Google translations and new Google lenses, a feature that allows users to search using a photo or their phone camera. Has gone.
This week, the company submitted an alternative treatment offer, which states that it addresses the search distribution contracts more accurately that was at the center of the antitrust case.
Walker told Fox News Digital, “The main discovery here was that we were paying to distribute the search in ways that made it difficult for rivals to compete.” “So our proposals deal with it, and say,” Okay, ok, we will adjust our contracts so that we do not pay for all access points in a device. ”
This includes small contracts for browser companies, Apple like And Mozilla; To allow new contracts with Android, additional flexibility and pre -loading options to prevent many search engines; And other important steps to make the landscape more competitive, he said.
“In short, Google’s proposed measures addressed much more than the specific conduct found to be anticomotive in the liability phase of the case and provided the opportunity to innovate and compete in the future by preserving the innovation encouragement of Google,” Tech Legendary wrote in his court.
Now, the measure presented in the federal court will need to take some steps to rectify those alleged mistakes.
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Google has long paid apple for pre-installed software on its iPhones. (Josh Edalson / AFP Getty Image / Getty Image)
The victory of the Department of Justice is important in the case last year – it marked the first successful antitrust lawsuit brought by the US against a major technology company by the US. in 2001.
But it is not clear whether its plan for relief will be equally successful or not.
“It seems like a backward looking case, (dealing with things happened 10 years ago) at the time of unprecedented innovation,” Walker said about the reform proposal of DOJ.
Both Google and the Department of Justice Department will re -join Washington, DC on Monday for hearing measures
