Today, well-known cybersecurity news site HackRead (https://www.hackread.com/) has published an article unveiling Google’s shady commercial practices towards its competitors.
Namely, German Tutanota accuses Google of censoring its search results through a technique called shadowboxing (being de-ranked or even disappearing from the Search Engine’s results)
Not only is it unfair, but this could also be illegal and in violation of a new regulation that recently came into force in the EU: the DMA (for Digital Market Act)
Tuta Mail (Tutanota) Accuses Google of Censoring Its Search Results
The DMA aims at promoting fair competitive practices in the digital marketplace. It is a new regulation and it has not been tested in Courts yet.
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If I was Tutanota, I would file a complaint for anti-competitive manipulation
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If I were the European Commission, I would readily attack Google for violation of the DMA regulation, in order to test it in court and maybe set a precedent
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And if I were the German Government, I would acknowledge here a grave problem of Sovereignty and National Interest at stake; I mean: this is a German company operating under German jurisdiction and proposing a service that no US company could ever seriously offer because according to the current legal framework in Germany, Tutanota can provide - by Law - an assurance of Confidentiality and Integrity for its open-source encrypted email service.