California Attorney General Rob Bonta has a message for big tech companies, including those in the state: he’s going to take action when they violate laws.
“This is priority space for me: To hold big corporations, Big Tech specifically, accountable,” Bonta, 50, said in an interview Thursday. “You should expect to see more.”
When he took on the job in April, replacing Xavier Becerra who was named U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Bonta inherited and joined several investigations and lawsuits in the tech space. Among them is a recently launched multistate investigation of Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and its effect on the mental health of young people. California is also part of a multistate suit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google over anticompetitive concerns with its Play app store policies, as well as an appeal challenging a court’s dismissal of lawsuits regarding Meta’s power.
