Google said it has filed appeals with the European Union’s second-highest court against binding instructions to open up its Android operating system.
Alphabet’s Google said it was appealing requests from the European Union to open up its Android operating system to rival artificial-intelligence services and allow other search engines to access search data.
The European Commission—the EU’s executive arm—in July issued binding instructions for Google to ensure that rival AI services could access features on Android devices to compete on an equal footing with Gemini.
EU officials also made a request for Google to share search data with some third-party search engines, including AI chatbots, to help them compete more fairly with Google Search.
Google said Tuesday that it had filed appeals with the General Court of the European Union, the bloc’s second-highest court, against those decisions that gave Google a January 2027 deadline on search data sharing and July next year to make changes on Android.
“We’re appealing decisions that will force us to share people’s private search history without sufficient anonymization and weaken vital security protections on Android,” Oliver Bethell, senior director of competition at Google, said in a statement.
