And on top of that all of those from other companies doing the exact same thing for data gathering.
It doesn't appear Google is interested in doing anything here. They would likely have to do something about the thousands of other trojan horse VPN apps, too. It's just that those are not as transparently owned by a privacy-invading internet giant (and those apps probably sell your private information directly to the highest bidder even more eagerly).
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onavo.spac... - the positive, uninformed reviews of this app give me a feeling like I'm reading a dystopian novel.
If Google is concerned about competition, they might.
If Google is more concerned about being accused of being anti-competitive, then they probably would not.
Those teens in the FB case tho.
They have no visibility into what companies are doing with enterprise certificates. The whole point of which was to allow internal apps to be built that Apple should have no knowledge of.
They did the best they could which is to revoke the certificate once they learnt of egregious behaviour.
Looks like Google even sends people routers to intercept ALL their traffic, and has special devices to constantly listen to their TV to analyze what people are watching. Yuck.