Google Appeals EU Orders on Android, Search Data

Google filed appeals on Monday at the EU General Court in Luxembourg against two European Commission decisions of July 16 under the Digital Markets Act. The orders require Google to share search query, ranking, click and view data with rival search engines and AI chatbots from January 2027 and open Android interoperability so rival AI assistants get access to 11 phone features. About 60 percent of EU mobile users run Android. An appeal does not automatically suspend the orders; Google is weighing a separate suspension request. Contested: Oliver Bethell, Google's senior director of competition, said the decisions force sharing of private search history without sufficient anonymisation and weaken Android security protections, and that sharing personal queries without adequate safeguards would cause irreversible harm to user privacy. The Commission says safeguards including anonymisation are built in. A DuckDuckGo spokesperson said the anonymization framework is robust and an appeal only buys Google time. Henna Virkkunen said the measures aim for greater choice of services in the EU. The 2027 deadlines stand unless a court suspends them. The Commission also fined Google €890 million in July for favoring its own Search services and restricting Play developers. The Trump administration has accused Brussels of unfairly targeting American companies through the DMA.