US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown
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Mehta briefly asks how Google would recommend forming a committee that could handle all the specifics of whatever remedy is proposed, as suggested by the DOJ. Google’s attorney complains any committee could end up simply letting the DOJ — and the executive branch in general — control how the deal gets interpreted. “That delegation of authority, I submit, is a violation of due process.” Schmidtlein also brings up how broad the remit of the committee would be, covering everything from privacy to identifying competitors.
Unspoken here: the Trump administration is no fan of Google, and this deal — in Google’s interpretation — would give it a huge amount of power over the company.