Description: Google was fined by EU Commission for changing its shopping algorithms in Europe to favor its own comparison service over competitors, resulting in anti-competitive effects.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Google's competitor shopping services.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
370
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2017-09-27
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
politico.eu · 2021
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EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager won her first big Google case in front of the EU's lower court on Wednesday, in a ruling that is set to embolden regulators to launch more cases against the U.S. search giant.
In a major blow to Googl…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.