The DOJ has been meeting with Google’s competitors and customers to decide who would be the best witnesses in any potential lawsuit challenging the company's dominant market position in digital maps and location information.
The investigation is broadly focused on Google’s control of digital maps and location data. | Patrick Sison/AP PhotoJustice Department antitrust lawyers are homing in on yet another Google target: the company’s vast mapping business.
A lawsuit targeting Google Maps could be filed this year, three people with knowledge said. The investigation is ongoing, and no decision has been made on whether to file a case or on what to include in a complaint, those three people said. A lawsuit challenging Google’s maps business would open up an unprecedented third front in as many years in the Justice Department’s antitrust war against the company.
Google is also facing an advertising-related lawsuit from a Texas-led group of states, and litigation over conduct involving its Google Play mobile app store from a Utah-led group of states. The latter is also slated for trial in the Fall.Google’s trove of map data is often used in search queries, such as “pizza near me.” However, Google Maps is also a key part of the underlying technology used in apps such as delivery services and ride-share companies.
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