Google Challenges EU Orders on Data Sharing and Search Access
Google has filed appeals against two EU orders that would require it to share data with AI rivals and give competing search engines access to its search data. The company argues that these measures would weaken privacy protections and irreversibly harm European users.
The EU's Digital Markets Act, which aims to promote competition in the digital market, has led to these orders. Google claims that compliance would sacrifice user security and require it to share people's private search history without sufficient anonymization.
EU regulators had ordered Google to help rival search providers and AI developers use services available to its Gemini AI model. The company says this would put user privacy at risk, as users often turn to Search with sensitive queries.
The European Commission has stated that the measures include strong safeguards for user privacy and device integrity. However, Google disputes this, saying that these safeguards are inadequate.