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Google Fights EU Orders on AI Data Access
29 Sep
Summary
- Google challenges EU orders to share AI data.
- Company cites user privacy and security risks.
- EU regulators assert robust privacy safeguards.
Alphabet's Google has formally challenged two European Union directives aimed at compelling it to provide AI rivals, such as OpenAI, with access to its services and search data. The company contends that these mandates, part of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), would compromise crucial privacy safeguards and inflict irreversible damage on European users.
Google filed its appeals on Monday with the General Court, Europe's second-highest court. The tech giant stated that the orders would necessitate sharing private search histories without adequate anonymization and weaken Android's security protections. Oliver Bethell, Google's senior director of competition, emphasized that personal queries, often related to sensitive topics, would be exposed without sufficient safeguards.
The European Commission, responsible for enforcing the DMA, has asserted that the contested measures incorporate strong safeguards for user privacy, device integrity, and security. DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, has supported the EU's stance, stating that the anonymization framework is effective and that Google's appeal is merely a delay tactic.
