{"id":26223,"date":"2018-09-18T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradlegal.hu\/?p=26223\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:47:23","slug":"google-avoided-fine-gvh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradlegal.hu\/en\/competition-law\/google-avoided-fine-gvh\/","title":{"rendered":"Google avoided fine from Hungarian Competition Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) started a competition control proceeding against Google LLC (Google) which ended without stating an infringement but Google shall make several commitments. GVH investigated Google\u2019s multiple commercial practices in connection with its \u2018Allo\u2019 chat client.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the procedure which began in 2016, GVH investigated Google\u2019s commercial practices in relation to its \u2018Internet and applications\u2019 services, \u2018personalisation of advertisements\u2019 and encryption among chat client endpoints as well as its communication practices in relation to data processing of Google account functions of \u2018Allo\u2019 chat clients.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the communication on encryption among chat client termination points, GVH stated the lack of infringement and terminated the procedure in relation to Google\u2019s communications practices pertaining to its \u2018Internet and applications\u2019 and \u2018personalisation of advertisements\u2019 services. Due to Google\u2019s voluntary commitments, GVH did not state any infringement and did not impose fine because the company ensured the protection of public interest and providing proper information to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>What was Google\u2019s misconduct in question exactly? GVH was not satisfied with the information Google provided to consumers. The authority argued that Google did not provide direct information during the installation and use of \u2018Allo\u2019 chat client, which can be used without using any other Google product or a Google account, that would bring the consumers in a position of making a knowledgeable and well-established decision. <strong>Due to lack of information, consumers had incomplete information on the nature, use and pricing of the product.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, GVH did not find it necessary to state an infringement, but underlined that the prejudice Google caused is repairable by the commitment decision pack which ensures the protection of public interest \u2013 as it is one of the main purposes of competition control procedures. <strong>Google promised to create a subpage within \u2018Allo\u2019 application with clear and understandable information for consumers<\/strong>, and to make information on webshops easily accessible, right after the introduction.<\/p>\n<p>Google also promised to public an educational banner on YouTube in the last quarter of 2018 with a message that Google collects and controls users\u2019 personal data, suggesting users to revise privacy settings.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, more and more competition control proceedings end with decisions on commitments, especially the ones involving consumer protection issues. <strong>This institution ensures the protection of public interest and the education of consumers. It is a win-win situation as the company also benefits at the same time since the authority will not state infringement and impose a fine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) started a competition control proceeding against Google LLC (Google) which ended without stating an infringement but Google shall make several commitments. GVH investigated Google\u2019s multiple commercial practices in connection with its \u2018Allo\u2019 chat client. During the procedure which began in 2016, GVH investigated Google\u2019s commercial practices in relation to its \u2018Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,125],"tags":[251,250,232,245,249,252],"class_list":["post-26223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competition-law","category-consumer-law","tag-commercial-practice","tag-commitment","tag-consumer","tag-google","tag-hungarian-competition-authority","tag-infringement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google avoided fine from Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) - Ill\u00e9s Law Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"GVH&#039;s audit on Google concerning its chat client ended without stating an infringement but Google shall make several commitments.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visegradlegal.hu\/en\/competition-law\/google-avoided-fine-gvh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google avoided fine from Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) - Ill\u00e9s Law Office\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"GVH&#039;s audit on Google concerning its chat client ended without stating an infringement but Google shall make several commitments.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/visegradlegal.hu\/en\/competition-law\/google-avoided-fine-gvh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ill\u00e9s&amp;N\u00e9meth Association of Lawyers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-18T11:47:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/visegradlegal.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/google-eye.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"820\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"dr. 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