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Google is so ubiquitous it's both a noun and a verb, and nearly everyone's search engine of choice. As a result, the landmark antitrust case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and several ...

Bottom line: US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled earlier this month that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search. Instead of imposing the most extreme penalty, such as breaking up ...

The question is how to fix Google’s monopoly. Is an order to force it to share data the solution? Credit...Mikel Jaso Supported by By Steve Lohr Steve Lohr has reported on tech and antitrust since the ...

Criminal investigators are increasingly using reverse keyword warrants to identify suspects based on online search data, raising privacy concerns among civil liberties advocates.

Earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued penalties against Google for monopolizing the search engine market, he stopped short of the harshest ones — like forcing the breakup of ...