ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) — Google must submit to monitoring as part of a plan to atone for a history of monopolistic behavior over ad tech markets, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in a memorandum Wednesday.
In the memo, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema expounds upon a ruling earlier this month in which the Bill Clinton appointee rejected calls to separate the tech giant from its lucrative ad tech division. The U.S. Department of Justice’s “rationale for seeking divestiture boils down to a lack of trust that Google will comply with an order from this court and an unrealistic desire for certainty,” she wrote.
Instead, the judge calls for “behavioral” remedies. In the newly released memorandum, Brinkema outlines new limits for Google. Specifically, both the tech titan and the Department of Justice, which brought the case, proposed establishing a Monitor and Technical Committee to oversee Google’s compliance with the court’s final judgment, Brinkema noted.
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