The United States investigates Google for alleged monopolistic practices
Google is recognized as the largest company on the internet. Its presence is international, and it has millions of active users, from which it constantly collects information. This allows to deliver a unique content to each one of the visitors, based on their behavior in the network. However, their control is so absolute that it does not allow other companies to compete against them.
Now, at least 30 United States attorneys general have launched an investigation against Google, seeking to determine whether it is violating the rules of free competition and looking for the number of violations that are allegedly being committed.
Specifically, prosecutors seek to determine whether Google uses practices that may violate the rules of economics with equal conditions for all. The investigation is focused on determining the use of user data, something that the United States does not tolerate and caused a big problem against Huawei.
Recently, the FCC sanctioned Google with 170 million dollars for illegally appropriating the personal data of children under the age of 13 who access YouTube. What Google did was take advantage of the innocence of children to show them exclusive advertising according to their behavior and for them to access it without the consent of their parents.
Now the Department of Justice and the FCC have begun a collaboration to study in depth a giant like Google and understand the practices they used to monopolize the market. However, this evaluation will be carried out on Facebook, a company that they have investigated on several occasions, later on Amazon and Apple.
The power these companies have worries Republicans and Democrats. Both sides of the policy agree that this competition is worrisome and that only large companies acquire the power of the entire world market.
