Italian Competition Authority Opens Investigation into Google for Unfair Commercial Practices

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into online search giant Google and its parent company Alphabet over alleged unfair business practices, the regulator said on Thursday.

The consent request Google sends to its users to link to its services “may constitute a deceptive and aggressive commercial practice,” the watchdog said in a statement, adding that the information it provides is “incomplete and misleading.”

Google was not immediately available for comment.

(Reporting by Giulia Segreti, editing by Gavin Jones)