The European Union ordered Google on Thursday to disclose data with rival search engines and open up its Android operating system to competing artificial intelligence services.The European Union ordered Google on Thursday to disclose data with rival search engines and open up its Android operating system to competing artificial intelligence services.
We expect that these regulations will result in developing alternatives to Google Search and Google’s AI services, such as Gemini, and that EU users will have a better choice of services,” EU technology director Henna Virkkunen said. However, the US internet giant cautioned that the measures might jeopardize users’ privacy.
The decision was granted under the EU’s flagship Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires the world’s largest digital businesses to become more competitive in order to provide users with more options. The EU stated that mandating Google to share search data would help “rebalance the playing field,” but the corporation claimed the measures would “introduce unprecedented risks to user privacy, device security, and national security.”
Kent Walker, Google’s manager of worldwide affairs, said the EU’s actions risked “undermining vital privacy and security safeguards for millions of Europeans.”
Walker noted that AI assistants could already access Android, and that by sharing search data, “Europeans’ private searches would be exposed to unfamiliar companies, without adequate anonymisation of the data and without user knowledge or consent”.
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