Ambulance chasers go after Google as antitrust case gains steam
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/grip-googles-eu-antitrust-case-now-dogged-by-no-win-no-fee-ambulance-chasing/
As if the threat of being hit with a huge fine (up to 4.3
billion pounds) from the European Commission weren't enough,
Google will now have to deal with another, rather unusual
challenge: the Google Redress & Integrity Platform (GRIP). In
essence, GRIP is a website--operated by a public relations
firm--that makes it easy for companies, who think they might
have been abused by Google's dominant position in search, to
squeeze some redress (i.e. reparations or damages) out of the US
company. Some might consider this the high-tech equivalent of
ambulance chasing.
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Google must take a firm stance against this array of bad actors, else
risk the death of thousand (million? billion?) cuts, some of them very
deep. If Google gives in, they'll have to keep making larger and larger
concessions forever and all of us will lose.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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