Overview
- Google filed appeals at the EU General Court on September 29, 2026 to contest two Digital Markets Act orders that would force it to share anonymized Search data and open 11 Android features to rival AI assistants.
- Google says the measures would expose sensitive search queries without adequate anonymization and weaken Android security by giving third parties deeper system access.
- The European Commission says its orders include strong safeguards for user privacy and device integrity and it has defended the timelines it set for data sharing and interoperability.
- If the orders are upheld, rival assistants like ChatGPT and Claude would gain system‑level access on roughly 60 percent of EU smartphones, including voice activation, app interactions, and some sensor data.
- The court challenge creates near‑term uncertainty that could delay technical work to build secure APIs and anonymized data pipelines and reshape how AI assistants reach users across Europe.