21 billion rubles!Russia's shot, the US technology giant was punished again

China Fund reporter Li Zhi

American technology giants are punished again! On July 18, local time, the Russian court issued a huge ticket to Google, because Google repeatedly did not delete the illegal content that Russia was identified as illegal, and decided to punish it 21 billion rubles (about 2.5 billion yuan). It is reported that at the end of last year, a court of Moscow, the Russian capital, fined 7.2 billion rubles (approximately 600 million yuan) in the United States, on the grounds that the platform was repeatedly deleted by the platform.

Google was banned due to unlicensed

The Russian court fined a fine of 21 billion rubles

The Russian Federal Communications, Information Technology and Volkswagen Media Supervision Bureau released on July 18, local time that the Moscow Court will impose a fine of more than 21 billion rubles (about 2.5 billion yuan) on Google, because Google has repeatedly been deleted by Russia repeatedly. Determined as illegal content.

According to reports, the amount of this fine is determined according to the 10%of Google and its revenue in Russia. This is also the second fine made by the Russian court in accordance with the percentage of Google and Russia's turnover. At the end of last year, a court of Russia's capital Moscow fined US Google Company 7.2 billion rubles (approximately 600 million yuan) for fines on the grounds that the platform has repeatedly deleted Russia's official content.

Google has been punished many times

In addition, in May of this year, the Federal Federal Bulletin also announced on the grounds that "Google has repeatedly refused to delete Russia's ban on content", and the Russian Federal Pharmaceuticals announced that it would file a case and enforce a fine of 7.2 billion rubles. It is reported that Google's voluntary payment of fines have expired on March 19.

According to reports, the Russian Federal Communications, Information Technology, and Volkswagen Media Supervision Bureau had previously issued 17 notices to Google, asking them to delete the false information about the Russian armed forces on the platform on the platform. delete.

On June 22, local time, the Russian Federal Communications, Information Technology, and Volkswagen Media Supervision Bureau disclosed that Google Co., Ltd. and its information resources have previously been held accountable for administrative responsibility for violating the non -deleted prohibited information of Russian law. To this end, Google was fined 68 million rubles.

According to CCTV News, on July 4, local time, the Russian Federal Anti -Monopoly Anti -Monopoly warned Google, asking its mobile phone software developers to correct the unreasonable clauses in the contract. If Google fails to make corrections within a monthly period in accordance with the requirements, the Federal Anti -Monopoly Bureau will initiate a lawsuit against the Antitrust Law.

Google is dominated by the market

Anti -monopoly agency announced an investigation into it

In addition to Russia, Google's life in Italy is not good. According to CCTV News, on the 18th local time, the Administrative Court of Lazio, Italy, ruled that the country's antitrust agencies Italian competition and the Market Administration Bureau in May last year, more than 100 million euros of more than 100 million euros of Google's three companies under the abuse of market dominance were in May last year. The fine decision is valid.

The Italian Competition and Marketing Administration believes that Google has hindered and delayed Italian energy digital service company Enex to publish applications on Google Automobile's mobile phone function platform, which constitutes a dominant position in the market. Since then, the punished company Google Co., Ltd., Google Italian Co., Ltd., and Google parent company Alphabet Co., Ltd., which have been punished, initiated a review appeal during the lawsuit.

In addition, on July 14, local time, Italian antitrust agencies Italy Competition and Market Administration announced that the data interconnection between the market leading positions to restrict market leadership began investigating Google.

The Competition and Market Administration believes that Google occupies a dominant position in multiple markets and obtains a large number of personal data through Google mail, maps, Android systems and other services. The turnover in 2021 is $ 257.6 billion. Google's abuse of market -led acts violated 102 "European Union Operation Treaty", and Article 20 of the EU's "General Data Protection Regulations" stipulates that consumers will obstruct the use of their platform data, restricting other operators in Italy to other operators in Italy Use personal data.

In this regard, Google responded that in the past ten years, Google has provided people with services to extract and transmit data. The company has some methods that can increase the direct transplantation of data in its services. For example, through open source data transmission projects, any organization can participate in it.

In fact, the European Union has been supervising Google's abuse of monopoly power in the mobile search engine industry and applications. Among them, Italian data protection agencies found that a local online publisher Caffeina Media SRL did not meet EU data protection standards when using Google data analysis tools and transferred user data to the United States. The Italian regulatory agency warned other websites that were using Google data analysis tools to check their compliance. In addition, industry insiders said that, in view of the current data protection, Google will close the general data analysis platform in 2023, which seriously depends on the tracker to collect the detailed information of the website visitors.

German antitrust agencies conducted investigations on Google Maps

On June 21, local time, the German Anti -Monopoly Office investigated Google Corporation on the grounds that Google was suspected of restricting Google Maps and third -party map services.

The German Federal Anti -Monopoly Office stated that it is investigating cases that Google restricts the combination of Google Maps and third -party map services and study whether it has obtained a monopoly position through this approach.The agency claims that in order to ensure fair competition in the Internet economy, they will review Google's data processing and news services, and at the same time investigate the license clause that integrates Google Maps into the car information system.In this regard, Google stated that they will cooperate with the investigation and inquiries of relevant agencies. During the investigation, users can continue to use Google Map services normally.The antitrust office will also investigate Google's customers and competitors in a few weeks.

It is reported that Google is not the only US technology giant company that has received attention from German competition regulatory agencies.Amazon, Apple and Meta have received antitrust lawsuits, and Apple and Amazon are still in the process of litigation.

Edit: Xiao Mo

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