Google is under investigation by the EU for forcing Android devices to use its voice assistant, report says
Insider approached Google for comment. The EU Commission declined to comment.
Google Assistant, equivalent to Siri on the iPhone, has been a default feature on most new Android devices since 2017. The AI-powered assistant was first launched in 2016, and can schedule meetings, answer basic queries, or initiate phone calls, among other features.by the dominance of a few voice assistants
on the continent, and suggested pre-installation was anti-competitive. She also expressed concerns about the way voice assistants collect people's data. "In the EU, Google Assistant, Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri are the leading voice assistants," she said at the time, adding that"there are concerns about default settings and pre-installation on voice assistants."
The EU has already fined Google for anticompetitive behavior — involving search, shopping, and Android — three times in three years: first
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