Analysts weigh in on enterprise impact if Google forced to sell Chrome

The Google antitrust trial is “a nonsensical move by the US government that is ridiculously short-sighted, because if compromising privacy for ad revenue is bad, compromising privacy to train AI models is dangerous,” an industry analyst said Thursday.

Paddy Harrington, senior analyst at Forrester, who specializes in security and risk, added that efforts by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to derail the company is a “move that may have been done in the name of anti-trust and competition, but it does not appear as if anyone thought through the implications of something else.”

That ‘something else’ raised its head this week during the