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EU Says Google/Click Merger Hurts Privacy

Written on
December 20th 2007
Author
Reuters Group

Google Inc’s planned takeover of rival DoubleClick for $3.1 billion would harm European citizens through greater intrusion of privacy, the EU’s top consumer lobby BEUC said on Thursday. “The Google/DoubleClick merger would harm consumer welfare by creating a structure that almost certainly will be less respectful of user privacy,” BEUC said [...] more...

EU Says No Privacy Investigation

Written on
October 15th 2007
Author
Telegraph

Google’S $3.1bn (£1.5bn) purchase of online ad business Doubleclick will push up prices for advertisers and hit the income of web publishers, rival operator Yahoo! has told the European Commission. Concerns are mounting that Google could become as dominant in online display advertising as it is in the £4.5bn European search [...] more...


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