They've been accused by the previous Justice Department of similar things and have settled for similar things in the past: https://insights.issgovernance.com/p

They've been accused by the previous Justice Department of similar things and have settled for similar things in the past: https://insights.issgovernance.com/posts/google-parent-alphabet-agrees-to-pay-shareholders-350-million-over-data-leak/ https://insights.issgovernance.com/posts/google-parent-alpha... > Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. agreed to a $350 million tentative settlement resolving allegations it concealed data-security vulnerabilities in the now-shuttered Google + social network. The settlement will become the largest data privacy and cyber-security-related securities class action ever recorded by ISS SCAS, if approved. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-under-doj-scanner-allegedly-153208672.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-under-doj-scanner-alle... > The Justice Department said Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google destroyed written records pivotal to an antitrust lawsuit on preserving its internet search dominance, the Wall Street Journal reports. Whether it's copyright fraud or another kind of fraud, I share the parent's cynicism, especially with AI given the importance Google peeps like Eric Schmidt place in "winning" the AI race (https://futurism.com/google-ceo-congress-electricity-ai-superintelligence https://futurism.com/google-ceo-congress-electricity-ai-supe...).