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This article was published on 16 September 2014 at 15:00.
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Before the Antitrust Commissioner for the then German Minister of Justice. Europe, in its highest offices, is trying to put in the corner of the search giant Google. The pressure has begun in recent days with Joaquín Almunia that avrebbbe refused for the third time the agreement proposal advanced by the company to Mountain View to heal the suspected abuse of dominant position in the online search market.
Today on the pages of the Financial Times spoke Heiko Maas, the German Federal Minister of Justice, who has gone beyond asking to be made public and available on the secret formula of the Google algorithm. Request returned to the sender by the Americans. The vertices of fear that Google reveal the recipe search engine, in addition to benefiting illegittamente competition, expose Internet users to attempts of manipulation and spam by the market.
The German anti-Google
Germany is probably the European country closer to the moves of the big Internet outside the EU. “We are not afraid of Google – said the German Minister in reply to a question from a journalist dell’Ft- but as a state we have responsibilities, Google has a 95 percent market share of search engines, is an outstanding percentage. .. With a share of 95%, Google dominates the world market for search engines and is able to promote their own interests. This is not acceptable. We have to find a way to solve the problem. ” At the same time ever in Germany, after the revelations of the scandal and Snowden Datagate-NSA, has proposed to introduce as soon as a single standard of data protection in the European Union. Even the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, has spoken in favor, announcing a European law on the matter within half of next year.
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