Washington, DC – States’ Attorneys General today announced an investigation into Google’s business practices. Digital Citizens Alliance Executive Director Tom Galvin made the following remarks about the announcement:
“Google makes tens of billions of dollars by harvesting personal information and tracking the online habits of Americans. Thanks to the state attorneys general, we’re about to learn how. We’re going to learn whether Google looks the other way at criminal behavior, whether it undermines small businesses trying to compete, and, how seriously it takes protecting Internet users, especially children, from harm. The answers to those questions will tell us what we need to know about Google and its future. One thing we do know: The era of Internet self-regulation is dead, due to Google’s arrogance and self-dealing.”
Previous Digital Citizens Alliance research on Digital Platforms:
- FOOL ME ONCE... HOW TERRORISTS LIKE AND RELY UPON THE “SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL” BUSINESS MODEL OF GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM
- DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN CRISIS: A DECADE IN THE MAKING
- Trouble in Our Digital Midst: How Digital Platforms Are Being Overrun by Bad Actors and How the Internet Community Can Beat Them at Their Own Game
- FEAR, LOATHING, AND JIHAD: HOW YOUTUBE IS PAIRING THE 2016 CANDIDATES WITH THE CREEPY, THE CORRUPT, AND THE CRIMINAL
- DIGITAL WEEDS: HOW GOOGLE CONTINUES TO ALLOW BAD ACTORS TO FLOURISH ON YOUTUBE
- BETTER AT ANY COST: THE DANGEROUS INTERSECTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE, STEROIDS, AND THE INTERNET
- GOOGLE & YOUTUBE AND EVIL DOERS: TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: A REPORT ON HOW GOOGLE AND YOUTUBE STAND TO BENEFIT WHEN BAD ACTORS EXPLOIT THE INTERNET