Salt Lake Tribune · Jan 23, 2019
Leonid Bershidsky: Europe’s next two fronts in its war on Google
EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager holds a press conference on a Competition Case involving Google Android at the European Commission building, in Brussels on Wednesday, July 18, 2018. he European Union's antitrust chief has fined Google a record $5 billion for abusing the market dominance of its Android mobile phone operating system. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys) Despite its lobbying, Google can't seem to win in Europe. The French privacy watchdog has blown through the U.S. internet giant's claim to comply with data-protection legislation, and its threat to pull its news-aggregation service in the region will likely prove far less effective than the company expects.