Google has appealed two European Commission orders telling it to open up features on its Android platform to rival AI service providers and to share search data with competitors, in the latest clash over the regulator’s implementation of the Digital Markets Act.

The Mountain View-based company appealed the decisions in the EU’s General Court, based in Luxembourg, arguing the orders would harm users’ privacy and security.

Google’s senior director of competition, Oliver Bethell, said people use the company’s search engine for “personal questions” and claimed the order would force these queries to be shared “without sufficient anonymisation”.

The Commission said it would defend the orders in court, adding that the orders in question take into account the integrity and security of the features involved, and ensure the protection of end users’ personal data.

Search engine DuckDuckGo, which markets its service as a private option, said the EU’s anonymisation framework was “robust”. “The only thing an appeal buys Google is time,” the company said.

The Commission issued the two orders in July after finding that third-party AI services didn’t have the same access to Android features as Google’s own Gemini, such as the ability to activate an AI assistant using a voice keyphrase.

The specification measure orders Google to open up 11 specific features on Android as of the next release of the platform in July 2027.

The second decision said Google must share search data with third-party search providers, which it said would “create a more level playing field with Google Search” and foster innovative search services.

The search data order aims to modify behaviours that the Commission said have made Google’s search data-sharing ineffective so far, such as making AI chatbots that provide search services eligible to receive shared data – which they previously were not.

A US judge in September 2025 similarly ordered Google to share search data with competitors, after finding Google operated an illegal search monopoly, in a decision that was widely viewed as a slap on the wrist. Google is challenging that decision.