Oracle’s hidden hand is behind the Google antitrust lawsuits
Under Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, Oracle worked behind the scenes for years to persuade regulators and law enforcement on at least three continents to rein in Google. Officials in more than a dozen of the states that sued Google received what has been called Oracle’s “black box” presentation showing how Google tracks users’ personal information, said Ken Glueck, Oracle’s top Washington lobbyist and the architect of the software company’s antitrust campaign against Google. Google spokesman José Castañeda decried what he labeled Oracle’s “cloak-and-dagger lobbying campaign.” He said: “While Oracle describes itself as the biggest data broker on the planet, we’re focused on keeping consumers’ information safe and secure.” In addressing the antitrust cases, Google countered in a blog post that it has improved search results in ways that many regulators around the world had previously deemed pro-competitive and that it keeps rolling out new features to better serve users. “They don’t seem to be confident that their technology alone can win that fight.” Brookings has received funding from Amazon and Google but not Oracle, Meserole said. Most of Oracle’s campaigns against Google are run by Glueck, who said he started in Washington as a driver to Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic senator from Connecticut and 2000 vice-presidential candidate.
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