Overview
- The European Commission has proposed that Google must provide granular search data — including queries, rankings, clicks, and views — to rival search engines and AI services on fair, reasonable and non‑discriminatory terms.
- Google's internal tests and a senior company scientist showed that supposedly anonymized search logs can be linked back to individuals in as little as two hours using linkage attacks and powerful AI models.
- Google warns that the Commission's separate proposal to give rival AI models the same system access on Android that Gemini now has would broaden attack surfaces and could increase fraud by exposing files, screen content, and voice interfaces.
- Google says it has started limited licensing to meet some DMA obligations but opposes a broader mandate to share raw search logs, while EU investigators are also probing possible self‑preferencing that could trigger large fines.
- If regulators reject conventional anonymization, they may require stronger technical safeguards such as zero‑knowledge proofs or homomorphic encryption, and the Commission's binding decision set for July 27 will likely shape global rules on competition and privacy.