Frankfurt,Germany — Germany’s antitrust regulator said Tuesday it has opened an investigation into Google over anti-competitive practices, wielding a new law that has already been used to scrutinize other US tech giants.
The Federal Cartel Office will investigate European units of Google in Germany and Ireland, as well as and its parent company, Alphabet, in California, it said in a statement.
The investigation has an “outstanding cross-market significance” due to the breadth of Google’s digital products, Cartel office head Andreas Mundt said.
“Google’s business model is very fundamentally built on the processing of its users’ data,” Mundt said. “Google has a strategic adv…
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