A U.S. judge has ruled that Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin must sit for questioning in a lawsuit brought by Texas and other states accusing Google of abusing its dominance in the digital advertising market. Pichai faces a four-hour deposition, while Brin faces 2.5 hours, after the judge refused to spare the executives from the antitrust case. The states allege Google unlawfully inflated ad prices and monopolized the digital advertising market.
Texas has asked a judge to block Google from questioning the state and its legal team in their lawsuit accusing the Alphabet unit of unlawfully collecting biometric privacy data of millions of Texans without consent @MikeScarcella https://t.co/M01AOa0Cjl https://t.co/LXIglb9Gj4
very interesting y'all. more evidence from more depos from more antitrust suits v google. this one is TX. https://t.co/A0PPnqhYNC
Attorneys for Texas in a court filing this week said Google’s demand to depose the state on a host of topics — including the state’s understanding of key terms in a privacy law — amounted to an impermissible effort to 'investigate the investigator' https://t.co/M01AOa04tN https://t.co/j9wCnJ3tE8