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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Lauren's Blog: DOJ's Proposed Antitrust
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Lauren's Blog: DOJ's Proposed Antitrust "Remedies" Against Google
Would Be a Disaster
https://lauren.vortex.com/2024/11/21/dojs-proposed-antitrust-remedies-against-google-would-be-a-disaster
Despite my continuing differences with various specific aspects of
Google operations that I feel could be straightforwardly improved to
the benefit of their users, I can't emphasize enough what an utter
disaster the DOJ proposed Google antitrust "remedies" would be for the
privacy and security of their users and consumers more broadly, and
for the overall usability of these crucial services as well.
Google privacy and security standards and teams are world class, and I
have enormous trust in them. Keeping email and the many other Google
services that billions of people rely on in their everyday lives safe
and secure is an enormously complex and continually evolving effort,
and key to this -- as well as making sure that users' data entrusted
to Google is not put at risk by firms with less stringent standards
than Google -- is the integrated nature of the Chrome browser,
Android, and other aspects of Google services. Even with this
integration, it's a monumental task.
Breaking these aspects of Google apart in the name of supposed
"competition" -- that would actually only make most non-technical
users' interactions with tech more confusing and complicated, just
what consumers clearly don't want -- would be a gargantuan mistake
that consumers would unfortunately end up paying for in a myriad
number of ways for many years.
Google is far from perfect, but DOJ seems hell-bent on pushing an
antitrust agenda in this case that would make consumers' lives far
worse instead of better. Whether that's a result of DOJ ignoring the
technical realities in play or simply not really understanding them,
it's the wrong path and would lead to a very bad place indeed for all
of us.
L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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