Google Probed in Italy on Data Sharing Concerns
July 14 2022 - 6:57AM
Dow Jones News
By Mauro Orru
Google is under investigation in Italy after the country's
competition watchdog said the Alphabet Inc. company had hindered
data sharing with third-party platforms.
The Italian competition authority said Thursday that Google
hampered the transfer of data from its own platform to Weople, an
app operated by Italian startup Hoda Srl.
The probe will look into whether Google abused its position in
the data-sharing market and assess the extent of potential harm to
competition.
A Google spokesperson said the company had measures in place
that allowed users to move data.
"Google has offered people the ability to take out and transfer
their data for over a decade and in 2021, more than 400 billion
files were exported. These tools are there to help people manage
their personal information," the spokesperson said.
Write to Mauro Orru at mauro.orru@wsj.com; @MauroOrru94
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 14, 2022 06:42 ET (10:42 GMT)
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