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Judge weighs proposals to address Google's search monopoly

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Google has said data-sharing provision would harm user

privacy

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FTC says proposal mirrors its own privacy enforcement

approach

By Jody Godoy

May 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the

de-facto federal privacy regulator, said on Friday that the U.S.

Department of Justice's proposal to make Alphabet's

Google share search data with competitors includes adequate

safeguards to protect users' privacy.

The proposal is part of a range of measures the DOJ says

are necessary to open up the online search market, after ruling

in August that the tech titan holds an illegal monopoly.

The Washington judge overseeing the case has seen a flood of

input from experts and interest groups for and against the DOJ's

proposals as the trial nears its end this month. The case could

fundamentally reshape the internet by potentially unseating

Google as the go-to portal for information online.

Increasing competition will put more pressure on Google

to improve its privacy practices, the FTC said.

Google has sought to block the DOJ's data-sharing proposal,

which its CEO Sundar Pichai said would give away the company's

intellectual property, in part by arguing that it would harm

user privacy.

The FTC said the proposal would appoint a committee to

oversee compliance, similar to the agency's privacy-related

settlements.

The DOJ and state attorneys general are also asking the

judge to make Google

sell off its Chrome browser and cease multi-billion dollar

payments to Apple ( AAPL ) and other companies that set Google

as the default search engine on new devices.

Google has said making its agreements non-exclusive, as it

has already begun to do, is the right approach.

The DOJ and state attorneys general have expressed concerns

that Google could extend its dominance to AI.

AI startup and Google partner Anthropic said in court papers

on Friday that requiring Google to give the DOJ advance notice

of its proposed AI investments and partnerships would create a

"significant disincentive" for Google to invest in smaller AI

companies and likely deter such investments altogether.

Google holds a minority stake worth billions of dollars in

Anthropic.

Anthropic argued the proposal "would harm, not benefit, AI

competition."