European organizations oppose Google-Wiz deal

EU antitrust regulators have introduced that they may resolve by February 10 whether or not to approve the acquisition of Israeli cloud safety firm Wiz by Google. Whereas authorized and competitors specialists assess that they may approve the deal for concern of US strain, theoretically they might resolve to not resolve, and open an antitrust inquiry that can defer the choice and make the entire course of much less nice for all involved.

Prior to now few days, a number of organizations have petitioned the European Fee to open such an investigation, amongst them SOMO (the Middle for Analysis on Multinational Firms), human rights group Article19, Balanced Economic system Challenge, Rebalance Now, and the Open Markets Institute. The petition comes not lengthy after Hilary Jennings, a former senior official within the UK Workplace of Truthful Buying and selling (now the Competitors and Markets Authority), printed related arguments on a web site coping with privateness and digital rights.

The principle argument repeatedly made by opponents of the deal pertains to the entry that Wiz will give Google to the cloud information safety layer of European corporations. The objectors concern that this entry might be exploited to remove rivals in cloud and cybersecurity and improve dependence on Google, create a desire for Wiz as a cyber resolution inside a Google setting, and benefit from the info that Wiz gathers on its prospects. It will make migration from Wiz or from Google’s cloud service to rivals harder and lift prices for purchasers.

In an article on the Tech Coverage web site, Jennings and others write that “If Google acquires Wiz, this impartial multi-cloud visibility would (sic) be absorbed right into a single hyperscaler’s ecosystem, enabling Google to align Wiz’s merchandise and roadmap with its personal cloud technique.” The article additionally raises the concern that “Wiz’s multi-cloud deployment provides it deep perception into how organisations configure and safe their methods. As soon as built-in into Google, that perception might be used to bolster each Google’s cloud and AI companies.” It provides that “Some buyers have described Wiz as a Malicious program, giving Google visibility into rival clouds that no competitor may replicate.”

Shortly after the Google-Wiz deal was introduced in March, addressing this concern, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian stated that a number of cloud approaches had been one thing that Google prospects wished, and that they didn’t wish to be locked right into a single supplier.

If all goes easily and the objections are dismissed, Wiz workers and buyers will have the ability to breathe a sigh of aid on February 10, and profit from the most important exit in historical past, the acquisition of a barely six year-old firm for $32 billion in money. The 4 founders alone, Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica, and Roy Reznik will pocket $1.5 billion every earlier than tax.

No response to the report was forthcoming from Wiz.

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on January 29, 2026.

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