Monday, 11 April 2011

Google still under accusation for the acquisition of Ita Software

It does not seem to be to us pauses for the giant of Montain View, the accusations seem to come on all the foreheads and from every part.

After the vicissitude Google Books and the denunciations of Microsoft to Antitrust of the European Union, now the search engine seems to be also in the view-finder of the American authorities. In fact, the Federal Trade Commission would want to verify the implications of the possible acquisition, from the giant of Mountain View, Ita Software, a start up specialized in the ticket sale online.

This on which the authority they would want to inquire would regard the impact of this new acquisition, of the value of 700 million dollars, in the searches between the result of Google. Insomma, the FTC nutre of the doubts on this economic operation of the search engine, that it could be an umpteenth movement of Mountain View in order to increase own dominant position in the market, this time in the section of the flights airplane prenotables on the web.

While, but, in the last hours, Jeff Huber, Google responsible, have communicated, through the blog official of the group, than Mountain View it would have received the approval of the Justice Department for the acquisition of ITA software that, being to the words of the group, will continue to operate as it has made in past, but, now, with the control of Google.

An official official notice of the DOJ previews some limits not to exceed, in order not violare, exactly, the laws of the free competition on the market. In fact, the thanks, search engine to this acquisition of the start up, will be able to insert between own result on the web information that the customer will be able to easy use and to manage in the purchase of flights online. At the same time, but, the DOJ previews that Google will be able to grant these services, but will have also to be worried to finance the search and the development in the new group that has acqusito.

A position not easy that of Google, at the moment, if we think also next to the fact that this not   the only one grattacapo for BigG.

An other problem is born, in fact, from the applications for smartphone. It seems, in fact, than the federal court of the New Jersey it wants to open a surveying on the apps for the mobile phones that operate on platform Android (Google) and iOs (Apple). The count of indictment that would weigh on Google would regard the operated violation of the privacy from these apps that they collect and they send given personal (as the access to the number of series of I probably telephone or to the lease of the customer), lacking also to requirement of the transparency, that is not   still clearly if the customer is aware that these data would be then visible to thirds party.

Wall Street Journal would have taken under investigation 101 applications and more of the half, at least 56, transmitted the Imei code of smartphone and the 47 the geographic lease of the same one.   verified, then, also the collection and the transmission of personal data, like the age or the sex of the customer. Under accusation, for the oltreoceano authorities, Ancient lute would be also the musical service, even if its sviluppatori have declared that the collection of the information of the customers only serves to improve the service offered to the customers.

Insomma, all these elements on the bench of the European and American judicial authorities seem to have an only comun denominator: the protection of fundamental elements that, sometimes, they make to cazzotti with the web. Copyright, privacy and free competition.

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