Google's AI scraping of news could get scrutiny in Brazil, CADE chief says
By Henrique Santiago ( November 19, 2025, 22:58 GMT | Insight) -- Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima, interim president of Brazil’s competition authority, suggested that the agency could open an investigation into Google’s use of AI to scrape news. The watchdog is already investigating Google's other efforts to scrape journalism.Google could be subject to investigation in Brazil for its use of artificial intelligence to scrape news from websites, the interim president of the country's competition authority said....
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