The German Competition Authority issues a Statement of Objections against a Big Tech search engine for implementing anticompetitive data processing terms (Google)

Statement of objections issued against Google’s data processing terms* Bonn, 11 January 2023: On 23 December 2022 the Bundeskartellamt sent Alphabet Inc., Mountain View, USA, Google Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, and Google Germany GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, its preliminary legal assessment in the proceeding initiated due to Google’s data processing terms. At this stage of the proceeding, the Bundeskartellamt assumes that the new provisions for large digital companies (Section 19a of the German Competition Act, GWB) are applicable and Google thus has to change its data processing terms and its associated practices. Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt: “Google’s business model

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German Competition Authority, The German Competition Authority issues a Statement of Objections against a Big Tech search engine for implementing anticompetitive data processing terms (Google), 11 January 2023, e-Competitions January 2023, Art. N° 110585

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