Lawmakers Demand Records from Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple
- Panel seeks acquisition records, executive communications
- Subcommittee is probing whether firms are impeding competition
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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A House panel conducting a broad antitrust investigation of the technology sector is demanding that companies turn over a trove of internal records about their business practices as it ramps up scrutiny of the industry.
Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline, who is leading the House antitrust subcommittee’s inquiry into large internet companies, said it is sending letters Friday to Google parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. asking for detailed information about acquisitions, business practices, executive communications, previous probes and lawsuits.