The Justice Department and state attorneys general say that Google has abused a monopoly over the search business, stifling competitors and limiting innovation, something the company denies.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice, including Kenneth Dintzer, front right, and Meagan Bellshaw, front left. The Justice Department has sued Google, accusing it of illegally shoring up a monopoly in online search.
The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to set a precedent for other attempts to rein in the tech giants that hold sway over information, social interaction and commerce.
At the heart of the case in federal court in Washington is Google’s dominance in online search, which generates billions of dollars in profits annually.
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.
Andrew Witty, the chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, acknowledged before the Senate Finance Committee that hackers had found a weakness in its cybersecurity that forced the shutdown of a vast billing and payments system.
The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome browser’s private Incognito setting.
Google said it would stop using technology that detects when users enable private browsing, so it can no longer track people’s choice to use Incognito mode.
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