{"id":27644,"date":"2022-08-30T07:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=27644"},"modified":"2022-08-31T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:19:08","slug":"justice-department-drafts-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/justice-department-drafts-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Drafts Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"0\">Apple could face a major antitrust lawsuit in the United States soon. The Department of Justice&#8217;s antitrust division is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which it intends to file by the end of the year. However, a final decision on whether to sue Apple has not yet been made.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"1\">Justice Department investigators are now collecting essentially all the data needed to formally sue Apple for alleged monopolistic practices while drafting the lawsuit. Originally, the Department of Justice&#8217;s investigation focused on the App Store, it is now said to be much broader.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"2\">The lawsuit will address various aspects of the Apple company, such as whether or how Apple&#8217;s oversight of devices affects rivals alongside app developers. This is influenced by public concerns from companies such as Tile and Spotify, which have asserted that Apple&#8217;s oversight of the platform gives it the upper hand over third parties with Apple Music and AirTag.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"3\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/08\/29\/justice-department-in-early-stages-of-filing-an-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple-says-report\/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudXB3b3JrLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANzodoO8ZtWHvmxOA19BleSgQO3spQsWrpO1Ypt0Ue1UF0n-TbAHNwDyDI_0Wx0wK0xL6xdxMsTKaj1lT7bfI4m-Kq3TQ6dm9TXHx1QP3mEoYxyKibMVNGCuPy872_Zke-dBd4jjDc41xIkZgL0gpH6VR54oIWRdt9uLOxDn3WMj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple could face a major antitrust lawsuit in the United States soon. The Department of Justice&#8217;s antitrust division is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which it intends to file by the end of the year. However, a final decision on whether to sue Apple has not yet been made. Justice Department investigators are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,356],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-27644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-legislation-regulation","tag-apple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27644","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27646,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27644\/revisions\/27646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}