{"id":11599,"date":"2021-09-02T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2021-09-03T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:35:36","slug":"doj-to-sue-google-over-digital-ads-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/doj-to-sue-google-over-digital-ads-business\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ to Sue Google Over Digital Ads Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing a second monopoly lawsuit against Google over its digital advertising business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Justice Department sued the tech giant in October over allegations that the $1 trillion company improperly used its market power to suppress rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google issued an e-mailed statement saying that its &#8220;advertising technologies help websites and apps finance their content, enable small businesses to grow and protect users from exploitative privacy practices and bad ad experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lawsuit filed in 38 US states accuses Google of abusing its market power to make its search engine the dominant online search platform in vehicles, televisions, speakers and mobile devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the State of Texas, supported by other states, filed another lawsuit against Google, accusing it of violating antitrust law in running its online advertising work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported several months ago that Google&#8217;s plan to stop a prominent Web tracking tool called &#8220;cookies&#8221; has caused deep concern among US Justice Department investigators, who have asked ad industry executives whether it would adversely affect smaller rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/us-sec-sues-bitconnect-founder-over-alleged-2-bln-cryptocurrency-fraud-2021-09-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing a second monopoly lawsuit against Google over its digital advertising business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-11599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-public-sector","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11643,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions\/11643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}