Google sides with Facebook in data dominance probe

Paris

GOOGLE is siding with Facebook Inc amid a brewing antitrust clash over how the social network giant may have abused its power to leverage customer data.

Fabien Curto Millet, an economist at Google, told a Paris conference that it's wrong to meld data privacy with antitrust issues. Earlier, the head of France's competition authority said he preferred a less confrontational approach than his German counterparts had taken on the issue.