Скачать или смотреть Android Developer Verification: Costs and Control

The provided sources offer a multi-faceted look at *Google's influence on the Android ecosystem and its interactions with government regulation**, presenting two distinct sets of issues. One set of documents focuses on a **major antitrust lawsuit against Google**, detailing a court-ordered remedy that prohibited Google from maintaining exclusive distribution contracts for products like Google Search and Chrome but rejected calls for a structural breakup, instead imposing behavioral remedies like data-sharing obligations. The second, larger set of articles discusses **Google's new Android Developer Verification requirement**, which mandates identity verification, fees, and documentation (like D-U-N-S numbers) for all developers, even those distributing outside the Google Play Store, a policy drawing significant backlash from the open-source community, particularly F-Droid, who view it as a threat to the platform's openness and a measure to increase Google’s control. Finally, a legal analysis examines the broader issue of **whether powerful technology companies like Google should be considered "state agents"* under the Fourth Amendment due to their pervasive data collection and routine cooperation with government data requests, suggesting that constitutional restraints should apply to their surveillance activities.