The maker of a privacy app has lodged a complaint with the European Commission alleging “Google abused Android's dominance of the European mobile market to unfairly favor its own privacy and security software over Disconnect's app” by blocking its app from the Google Play app store, ZDNet reports. Disconnect, a privacy app founded by ex-Google employees, filed the complaint after its mobile app was pulled from the Google Play app store last year, the report states. Google removed the app because it threatened the company’s tracking and advertising business, according to the complaint. A spokesperson for the Commission’s competition office said it would assess the complaint.
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