IT News on September 29th: According to Bloomberg, Google has raised objections to the EU's requirements to open the Android operating system to AI competitors and to provide search data to competing service providers.

On the 29th local time, Google stated that it had filed an appeal with the General Court of the European Union, located in Luxembourg, regarding the measures taken by the European Commission under the Digital Markets Act, arguing that these requirements would undermine user security.

Oliver Besserl, Senior Director of Competition at Google, stated: "People use search services to ask some of their most private questions, ranging from health concerns to intimate matters. Forcing us to share this private query data without adequate safeguards would cause irreversible damage to users' privacy."

In decisions made by the EU under the Digital Markets Act, most have been challenged in court by large technology companies, which wish to further clarify how this law should be applied. In another case, Google was fined $1 billion for violations of the Digital Markets Act. The U.S. government is also dissatisfied with this regulation, believing that it discriminates against American companies.

In July this year, the European Commission required Google to allow users to activate their chosen AI assistants via voice commands within 12 months. The regulatory agency also stipulated that by January 2027, third-party search engines should have the same access to search data as Google Search. Currently, only Google Search is able to collect such data on a large scale, especially data from AI chatbots.

The program has not yet entered the formal stage of investigation for violations, but the EU hopes to use this as a means to pressure Google to adjust its services again, so that its technologies comply with the Digital Markets Act. This regulation sets forth a number of restrictions intended to govern the tech giants of Silicon Valley.