Re:U.S. Justice Dept Considering Apple Probe: Sources
by DannyBee on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:43PM
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What happened is the FTC and DOJ brokered and agreement on jurisdiction, finally.
The rest of these articles are just guessing about what it means.
Really.
It's certainly the case that they don't broker agreements for no reason.
But they've also probably been talking to each other about it for 4+ years.
In the background they've almost certainly had lighter investigations/considerations roughly "forever".
So i'd take all of this with a huge grain of salt until there is something more.
It will be obvious what is going on one way or the other when they start issuing subpoenas, to either potential witnesses, or to these companies themselves.
Before that, the other sign would be huge staffing up of the temps and experts necessary for document review, etc.
The rest of these articles are just guessing about what it means.
Really.
It's certainly the case that they don't broker agreements for no reason.
But they've also probably been talking to each other about it for 4+ years.
In the background they've almost certainly had lighter investigations/considerations roughly "forever".
So i'd take all of this with a huge grain of salt until there is something more.
It will be obvious what is going on one way or the other when they start issuing subpoenas, to either potential witnesses, or to these companies themselves.
Before that, the other sign would be huge staffing up of the temps and experts necessary for document review, etc.