The European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, has in recent years cracked down on Big Tech via a slew of legislation to ensure that users have more choices and smaller rivals room to compete that has however triggered the ire of the U.S. government, News.Az reports, citing Reuters.
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Sergei Vassilvitskii, with the title of distinguished scientist at Google since 2012 and regarded a leader in his field, will meet EU antitrust officials on Wednesday to voice his concerns and propose a broader approach with better guardrails.
The meeting comes a month after the Commission outlined a series of steps that Google should take to allow rival search engines access search data such as ranking, query, click and view data on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
The EU proposal, which will be finalised in the coming weeks following feedback from interested parties, has triggered a furious response from Google which called it regulatory overreach that could jeopardise users’ privacy and security.
