Google Challenges EU Orders to Open Up Services and Search Engine Data

Google has challenged two EU orders aimed at opening up its services and search engine data to rivals, citing concerns over user privacy and security. The challenges come as part of a broader clash between Google and European regulators over the scope of the Digital Markets Act.

The EU's antitrust regulators ordered Google in July to help online search rivals and artificial intelligence developers use its Gemini AI model under rules known as the Digital Markets Act. However, Google argues that compliance with these measures would undermine privacy safeguards and cause irreversible harm to European users.

Google filed its challenges to the Luxembourg-based General Court on Monday, stating that mandating the sharing of people's private search history without sufficient anonymization would be a significant blow to user privacy.

DuckDuckGo, an internet privacy company, has backed the EU watchdog in this matter, stating that the anonymization framework is robust and that Google's appeal is merely a bid for time.