robkelk Wrote:I'm not certain that's possible. Google doesn't actually have a monopoly here so antitrust legislation wouldn't work. And would you mandate that all other companies have to be broken up in the same way? It's a lot of bureaucratic and political reshuffling toward not much purpose. What stops Google Earth from selling its data to Google Adsense after you break them up? I mean, the only punishment we have for that is hitting their reputation and fining them and you said that is insufficient.The real problem is the taking of private data, and that's always going to be a problem. Stricter privacy laws would seem a better solution than arbitrarily punishing one company.Quote:So what do you want to happen?Carve them up into discrete businesses, the way Bell was carved up into the various "Baby Bells" in the States. Except that in this case the carving should be done by business unit, not by region.
It's not like Canada hasn't forced large international internet companies to abide by our privacy laws in the past. We gave Facebook a bloody nose over this kind of thing, we can probably give google a bloody nose as well.
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