SIIA Statement Following the Result of the U.S. v. Google Remedy Trial

The following statement regarding the remedy trial in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) case against Google Search can be attributed to Chris Mohr, President, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).

Yesterday, the court affirmed the competitive nature of the search and generative AI ecosystems and correctly rejected many of the fundamentally flawed remedies proposed by the DOJ, including heavy-handed solutions that would break Chrome and Android. These harmful remedies threatened to leave consumers worse off and disrupt digital products and services that consumers love and rely on every day.

At the same time, we are concerned that several of the remedy proposals adopted by the court today cut against long-standing principles designed to benefit consumers and support dynamic markets. The decision to require Google to share Americans' data with other businesses creates serious privacy and cybersecurity risks and puts consumers' most sensitive information in jeopardy. Additionally, barring Google from participating in exclusive web browser contracts threatens to hurt developers and device manufacturers who rely on these contracts for revenue, ironically threatening to create a less competitive online ecosystem.