The United States Department of Justice reportedly asked the judge who ruled last August that Google violates antitrust laws Americans this forces the company to get rid of its Chrome browser.
In this way, the Ministry of Justice would have asked the judge Amit Mehtaof the District of Columbia, to order Google to get rid of the Chrome browser, the most used in the world and which controls approximately 61% of the market in the United States.
Additionally, antitrust authorities, along with states that have joined the case, are also considering recommending that the company be taxed. data licenseas well as measures related to AI and its operating system for smartphones. But ultimately, they wouldn’t have asked for Google to also be forced to sell Android, according to Bloomberg.
Since last August, government lawyers have met with dozens of companies to prepare the recommendation to the court and states are still considering adding some proposals, so some details could change, the people consulted said.
According to the agency, Lee-Anne Mulholland, vice president of regulatory affairs at Google, said the Justice Department “continues to advance a radical agenda that goes well beyond the legal issues of this matter,” warning that “the government putting its thumb on the scale in this way would harm consumers, developers, and America’s technology leadership, precisely when it is needed most.”
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Last October, the Ministry of American justice filed a document before the court hearing the case in which, as a plaintiff, he proposes to consider different solutions to solve problems such as search distribution and Google’s revenue sharing, generation and display of search results, scale and monetization of advertising, and accumulation and use of data.
Among the battery of measures proposed for each of the different areas addressed, the plaintiffs considered “behavioral and structural” remedies which would prevent Google from using products such as Chrome, Play and Android to support Google Search and related products and features, as well as other remedies that would limit or terminate Google’s use of contracts and other tools to control or influence distribution channels.
The judge in the case has scheduled a two-week hearing next April on what changes Google should make to address the illegal behavior and expects to issue a final verdict by August 2025.
