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Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google's Ad Tech Monopoly
A court has ordered Google to implement specific ad tech transparency and oversight measures without mandating a full business breakup.
What: A US judge mandated that Google improve ad pricing transparency for marketers and rivals, while appointing an independent trustee to monitor compliance with these monopolistic conduct reforms.
Why it matters: This outcome suggests regulators are pivoting toward forced behavioral parity as a compromise when structural divestiture proves too difficult or legally fraught in entrenched tech markets.
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While Google isn't required to break up its ad tech business, judges have mandated changes to the company's practices. The changes largely align with recommendations made by Google and the Justice Department to correct the company's monopolistic behavior. Google will make its ad pricing more transparent to marketers and rival ad businesses, and appoint a trustee to oversee the changes.
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