"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 the company. Instead, Mehta ordered Google to share portions of its incredibly valuable search index and user click-and-query data with some of its competitors. This move, which will make it easier for rivals to build their own search engines, is meant to even the playing field in the search space"
"Google already shares some aggregate user information, like search trends or how often people use Google, with third parties, including advertisers, business partners and sponsors, the company says. But it's not personally identifiable information. (More granular and identifiable information can be shared if Google is ordered to comply with a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.) "Google already shares your data. That's part of the contract that you make when you sign up for a Google product."
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ordered Google to share portions of its search index and user click-and-query data with some competitors to make rival search engines easier to build and reduce Google's monopoly power. The shared data could include valuable, granular user behavior that raises privacy concerns when handed to third parties. Tech and data privacy analysts warn that such sharing could expose private information in ways users did not agree to. Google already provides aggregate, non-personally-identifiable information to advertisers and partners, while more detailed identifiable data is only released under legal process. A five-person technical oversight committee will set qualification and security standards for access.
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