Google Appeals EU Mandates to Open Android and Share Search Data with Rival AI Services

GOOGL is taking the European Commission to court over two Digital Markets Act decisions that would reshape how Android and Search work in Europe. Google filed its challenges at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Tuesday, according to reports from Bloomberg, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal and an AFP report carried by Euronews.

The decisions, adopted on July 16, go to the heart of Google's AI strategy. The first requires Google to give rival AI assistants access to 11 Android system features, including voice activation, screen reading and app interaction, on terms comparable to those its own Gemini assistant enjoys, with compliance due by July 2027. The second requires Google to share anonymized search ranking, query, click and view data with rival search engines on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms from January 2027. Together they would lower the barriers for assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude to operate on Android and to improve their own search products.

Google's case is framed around privacy and security. "We're appealing decisions that will force us to share people's private search history without sufficient anonymisation and weaken vital security protections on Android," Oliver Bethell, Google's senior director for competition, said, according to AFP. The appeals are separate from the €890 million DMA fine the Commission imposed in July over self-preferencing in Search and Play Store steering rules.

The stakes are real but slow-moving. Court challenges of this kind typically take well over a year, and filing an appeal does not by itself suspend the compliance deadlines, so Google still faces the January and July 2027 dates unless it wins interim relief. Repeated DMA non-compliance can draw fines of up to 10% of global annual revenue, rising to 20% for repeat infringements. Alphabet shares were down 1.2% at $338.75 in early afternoon trading, per our data, with no sign the filing itself moved the stock.

What to watch: whether Google seeks interim measures to pause the deadlines, how the Commission responds, and whether rival assistant makers begin preparing Android integrations ahead of July 2027 regardless of the litigation.