the oval mobile operating syst. they control the online ad marketon which means they also control the companies that rely on online advertising, that is every single digital news company in the united states. google has ann army of lobbyists in washington it bankrolls politicians and contributes to virtually every major think tank in washington regardless of ideologies including hilariously a d think tank dedicated to fighting monopolies. at least one of those think tanks has fired a staffer for being critical of google. thee question is and it may e rhetorical e is google too powerful to regulate? scott leland is author of search and destroy: why you can t trust google and he joins us now. all of the t information comes o us from this tiny little portal, google says trust us were not
big deal i ll just put my phone in airplane mode. this is the other phone we had with the snow sim card, also remained in airplane mode to the entire time. let s see what kind of data it captured? the phone with airplane mode activated actually logged more locations and activities in the other phone and it also transmitted hundreds of kilobytes of data to make a google as was activated. the only thing that s missing is our stop at the children s hospital, it still knows we were there. there it is, exiting vehicle. google gets users to sign away their privacy for nothing. they re even follow you in places most people would expect total privacy. it children s hospital, a private school, a church, every move you make google is watching you. it s a scary conclusion to come to if you re using an androidoi device. we should point out as i mentioned in the piece when you
what we do on google, this should be a slam-dunk. we should be able to show consumer harm andoe we have done so. when a momed does a search for a pediatrician in salt lake city, she is trusting google to match her with the best information. that has been thee implicit promise toha the users throughot its growth but what happens is they have swapped out that information and put their own inferior informationnf there. this creates a harm and it gets back to your question about monopoly. if you can show that consumer harm, then you can easily prosecute an antitrust case. this is why i think we should focus on the business conduct as it relates to search. tucker: the monopoly is prima facie and do so is the harm. you work in washington on this issue.mb you ve spoken to members of congress and you told them what they already know, the company is too a powerful it has a monopoly is hurting consumers. how do they respond? were starting to see the tide
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others to look into that meeting. yes indeed. and what did the senate chairman tell you. reporter: i talked to jeff sessions and the attorney general and about concerns on capitol hill trudhat trump may e jeff sessions. in charge of any nomination hearing for attorney general said he agenda is full for the year. meaning he is not ready to move forward at any successor to jeff sessions. a very stark warning to the white house that if president trump were indeed to fire sessions, that he would not move on a successor this year. so that shows you, wolf, that even if president trump wants to name someone, the senate, controlled by his own party is not ready to act on a successor. attorney general sessions, former republican senator from alabama. popular among his fellow republican senators.