At present, the United States and many European Union countries have launched investigations into the violations of American Internet giants such as Google.

The FTC's rhetoric

According to reports, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Lina Khan (Lina Khan) said in an interview with the TV channel that the four major technology giants Google, Metaverse, Apple and Amazon currently under antitrust investigation have Powerful resources, but in the face of their threats and intimidation, the FTC will never back down. Under Lena's leadership, the FTC has taken steps to show American tech giants its antitrust resolve. After an antitrust lawsuit against Metaverse was dismissed by the court, the FTC soon filed a revised lawsuit, this time with court support.

Lina said that antitrust enforcement will only get tougher.

Germany, France, Austria and other EU countries have also launched investigations on it.

Germany's antitrust agency, the Federal Cartel Office (FCO), announced earlier that it has decided to launch a broader antitrust investigation into Google and its parent company Alphabet under the authority granted by the latest antitrust law.

The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) fined Google €150 million and Facebook (now Metaverse) €60,000,000 for violating French regulations on the use of cookies.

The Austrian Data Protection Authority considered the measures taken by Google, including the encryption measures deployed, to be insufficient because they did not eliminate the possibility of surveillance or access to personal data by US authorities.

U.S. government agencies launch investigations, lawsuits

The District of Columbia and the states of Texas, Washington and Indiana are reportedly suing Google, arguing that it deceived consumers into obtaining their location data.

Google spokesman Jose Castaneda (Jose Castaneda) said it does not agree with the allegations.

Google faces an antitrust lawsuit led by the state of Texas, in which states accuse the company of acquiring and abusing a monopoly over a system that allows publishers to auction off ad space to marketers.

According to sources, several states in the United States have begun investigating whether Magic Eye, a virtual reality business owned by Metaverse (formerly Facebook), has potential violations. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is also involved in the antitrust investigation, the sources said. The report pointed out that New York, North Carolina, and Tennessee have all participated in the investigation, and nearly 50 states on the 14th asked the court to resume the antitrust lawsuit they filed against Metaverse in December 2020.

In response, the Metaverse, New York, North Carolina, and Tennessee did not respond.

According to the website of Justia, a U.S. legal service resource company, in January 2022, U.S. Video Labs also filed a lawsuit against Amazon in the District Court of Texas in January 2022.