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Five reasons why Europe fines Google and the US tech sector

By Allison Alsup
July 31, 2018 • Reading Time: < 1 minute

Since June of last year, the EU has fined Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent company) $7.7 billion. But what has Alphabet done to receive such high fines? Dr. Mark Jamison, Gunter Professor and Director of the Public Utility Research Center, discusses five reasons why the EU imposes record-breaking fines on U.S. tech companies in his latest blog post.