Google and Congress Botch an Opportunity

Here’s what I learned from watching Mr. Pichai go to Washington: Our elected representatives are too often failing us when it comes to holding powerful tech companies to account. The powerful tech companies are also failing in being accountable to the public.

Sundar Pichai, the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit, appeared before a congressional committee on Tueday in the continuing and mostly necessary inquiries into the actions of U.S. technology giants. Many of the questions from the House Judiciary Committee centered on three topics: whether Google is a biased source of information, how much data Google collects about people, and whether Google will resume its web search service in China.