Key facts
- Google challenged EU orders to share AI model access and search data.
- Google argues compliance would harm user privacy and security.
- The EU regulators stated the measures have robust privacy safeguards.
- DuckDuckGo backed the EU watchdog's anonymization framework.
- Google filed its challenges on Monday.
Alphabet's Google has challenged two European Union orders that would require it to grant artificial intelligence rivals, such as OpenAI, access to its services and provide search engine competitors with access to its search data. The tech giant argues that complying with these orders, mandated under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), would compromise privacy safeguards and cause irreversible harm to European users.
EU antitrust regulators issued the orders in July, aiming to curb the power of Big Tech companies. Google contends that the measures designed to foster competition would come at the expense of user privacy and security. The company filed its challenges with the General Court in Luxembourg on Monday, asserting that the mandated sharing of private search history lacks sufficient anonymization and would weaken security protections on Android.