Time for an update on Google in the EU? Its complicated, but I came across this summary the other day.
4 May 2015 http://qz.com/394273/does-europe-hate-google-or-america/
Does Europe hate Google or hate America?
On the same day European regulators filed formal antitrust charges against Google last month, they also announced a new investigation into Google’s Android operating system. Meanwhile, the company faces fines in several European countries for its 2012 privacy policy change. It is confronting a web of new, harsher data-protection laws, grappling with a European Court of Justice ruling on the right to be forgotten, and awaiting a decision on another case that will decide whether European data-sharing exemptions for American firms should be stopped.
And the policy hurdles keep coming, whether stemming from serious considerations (see the European Union’s recent draft documents on regulating Google) or weak attempts to play to the peanut gallery (see the European Parliament’s recent vote to break up Google).
Taken together, these events and rulings and proposals certainly look like a concerted effort to tame Google specifically and Silicon Valley more generally. But the responses to Google’s dominance and behavior in Europe do not represent one voice. They come from different branches of the Union, from member states that represent their own national interests rather than European ones, and even from within different branches of the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU......
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