The Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit challenging Google's monopolization of digital advertising technology stands on shaky legal grounds.

Google is facing yet more scrutiny over its ad tech practices after the UK’s competition watchdog provisionally found that the company is abusing its dominant market position. In a statement of objections,

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority Friday provisionally found that Google has abused its dominant market positions by using publisher and server buying tools to restrict competition in advertising tech.

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally ruled that Google’s dominance in the ad tech market is detrimental to competitors.

Key Takeaways The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google may have broken U.K. competition laws by abusing its influence and using “anti-competitive” practices in prioritizing its own ad exchange.

UK's anti-competition watchdog has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in online ads, harming thousands of UK publishers and advertisers in the £1.8 billion ($2.4 billion) digital ad market.

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority said that the US company gives preference to its own services to the detriment of online publishers and advertisers in Britain's 1.8 billion pound (USD 2.4 billion) digital ad market.