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    GOOGLE GRILLED IN CONGRESS: WHAT’S AHEAD FOR TECH COMPANIES

    Dec 15, 2018 3 minutes
    Image: Jim Young

    U.S. lawmakers’ grilling of Google CEO Sundar Pichai may have sounded like a broken record, but it amplified the prickly issues facing tech companies as Democrats prepare to take control of the House next month.

    The 3 1/2-hour hearing Tuesday hit upon familiar themes — online privacy, data protection and the danger of digital monopolies — that are poised to come into even sharper focus next year.

    Here are some of the hurdles that Google parent Alphabet Inc., Facebook, Amazon and other tech

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