Overview
- The European Commission, which unveiled the measures Thursday, proposed giving third-party search engines and AI chatbots access to Google data on queries, rankings, clicks, and views.
- The draft spells out what data is covered, how often it must be supplied, how it must be anonymized, who qualifies for access, and how prices can be set.
- Regulators opened a consultation that runs until May 1, with a binding decision targeted for July.
- Google said it will fight the proposal, arguing it overreaches, threatens user privacy and security, and is being pushed in part by OpenAI.
- Under the EU’s Digital Markets Act, designated gatekeepers face remedies and fines up to 10% of global revenue, and Google was charged under the law in March 2025 after earlier EU antitrust penalties totaling €9.71 billion.