At issue was whether the Justice Department had revealed sensitive business information in violation of an agreement on confidentiality.
, which transparency activists have decried as shrouding the dealings of one of the world’s most powerful companies in secrecy.
In the meantime, lots of details of Google’s business are likely to emerge, under rules intended to preserve confidentiality of sensitive business information. On Wednesday morning, an attorney for Apple, which is not a party to the antitrust case, complained that government attorneys already have violated those rules.
Ahead of the trial, activist groups had criticized the court’s decision to reject requests for a public telephone line for the whole case, so people around the country could listen in.“The public has a very real stake in this case, and neither Google nor the Court should be allowed to shroud it in secrecy,” Katherine Van Dyck, senior counsel at the American Economic Liberties Project, said in a statement.
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