Comment on US accuses Google of illegal methods to push up ad prices
Maestro@kbin.social 8 months agoIf the ads were targeted to people searching for [brandname] then that would be straight up illegal. Companies woyld have a slam dunk case in court.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s the thing though, proving it would be next to impossible.
BeefPiano@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A subpoena would do the trick. Their employees aren’t going to jail for obstruction to protect Google.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You need some reasonable grounds to put before a judge before they’ll grant a subpoena. A subpoena can confirm what they suspect, it can’t be used to blindly fish for evidence.
However it could be that what was in the deposition gives them the grounds. Should be an interesting trial.