BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s cartel office mentioned it had decided that Alphabet and its subsidiary Google met the dimensions threshold required for it to be topic to the brand new expanded supervisory powers it has been given to control digital firms.
The regulator mentioned on Wednesday that it was already wanting extra intensively at Google’s use of private information and the Google News Showcase product below the brand new powers and was additionally considering additional cases involving Amazon, Apple and Facebook proprietor Meta.
Under new laws that got here into power firstly of this yr, the regulator can ban firms which have specific market weight from finishing up practices that hurt market competitors.
(Reporting by Thomas Escritt, Editing by Miranda Murray)
