Datenschutz: Google klagt gegen EU-Auflagen für seine Suchmaschine und KI

Brussels - Google, the internet giant, is challenging a European Union directive that mandates it to provide certain data and services to competitors. On Tuesday, the company filed a lawsuit with the European Union's Court in Luxembourg. The tech behemoth is accused of providing anonymized internet search data to other search engine operators to enhance their products, as well as granting access to its Android smartphone operating system's voice control feature to third-party developers.

The legal basis for this is the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which obliges major technology firms to facilitate market access for competitors. Breaches could result in fines up to ten percent of the company's global annual revenue. Google's reasoning for the current lawsuit is inadequate anonymization of user data. "People use search for highly personal questions – from health concerns to personal relationships," explained Google's competition affairs manager, Oliver Bethell.

"Forcing them to continue sharing these personal search queries without adequate protective measures would inflict irreversible damage on users' privacy." The EU Commission affirmed that the planned safeguards would be effective, safeguarding user privacy and ensuring the cybersecurity of Android devices. The search provider DuckDuckGo shares this assessment, stating emphatically that "no amount of inflated artificial doubt can change this." "All Google gains from this lawsuit is time."