Google challenges EU orders to open up to AI, search-engine rivals
Google says the EU orders would weaken Android security and expose private search history as rival AI assistants and search engines gain broader access.
- On Tuesday, Alphabet's Google filed an appeal at the General Court in Luxembourg, challenging European Commission orders under the Digital Markets Act requiring the company to open Android and search data to rivals.
- European regulators previously mandated that Google allow users to activate third-party AI assistants on Android within 12 months and share scale-level search data with competitors by January 2027 to foster alternatives to Google Search and Gemini.
- Google Senior Director of Competition Oliver Bethell argued that sharing personal search queries without robust safeguards risks "irreversible harm to user privacy" while compromising security protections on Android devices.
- Defending its measures, the European Commission stated they include robust safeguards protecting device integrity and user privacy, though Big Tech firms increasingly contest Digital Markets Act decisions in court.
- Escalating tensions over the Digital Markets Act include criticism from the American administration under Trump, which views the regulation as discriminatory against Silicon Valley giants competing globally.
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The American Google, a member of the Alphabet Inc., has appealed to the European Court of Common Jurisdiction against the European Commission (EC) orders to open the Android operating system to outside IE services and to provide search data to competitors, writes The Wall Street Journal. "We appeal against decisions that will force us to disclose the personal history of people's search requests without sufficient anonymousization and weaken crit…
Google: Google appeals against EU order to share data, open Android to AI rivals
Google said Tuesday it has appealed an EU decision requiring it to share data with other search engines and open up its Android system to rival AI services, citing privacy concerns. But Google countered that Android is already open and interoperable and the EU decision forced it to hand over private search data to other firms without adequate anonymisation, user knowledge, or consent.
(Brussels=Yonhap News) Correspondent Hyun Yoon-gyeong = US Big Tech Google shares its data with other search engines, and the Android system is competitors' artificial intelligence (AI)...
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