Google vs. the World

[Commentary] Google is battling law enforcement in the U.S. and around the world on three different legal battlefronts: antitrust, privacy and property. Why is it only Google that is under serious law enforcement investigation for so many different serious infractions in so many countries around the world? According to a top Google lawyer, “Google’s leadership does not care terribly much about precedent or law” per Stephen Levy’s book In The Plex. That very rare scofflaw attitude, combined with the vast amount of evidence cataloged below, strongly suggests Google is not the innocent victim it claims to be, but a dominant perpetrator of systematic violations of law around the globe.

Only Google is battling law enforcement around the globe with the defiant stance that:

• Google is not a search advertising monopoly and has no special obligations under antitrust law;
• Google’s new privacy policy consolidation with no opt-out choice is not a monopoly “take-it-or-leave-it” ultimatum to users; and
• Google’s not-so-subtle public threats to use Motorola’s essential standards patents to defend Android from non-standardized property rights claims of competitors is not anti-competitive.