Google parent Alphabet on Monday took Brussels to court over two European Union orders that would force the search giant to open its Android devices to rival AI services and hand competing search engines access to its search data.

The European Commission issued both orders in July under the Digital Markets Act, the EU’s gatekeeper law, which Brussels says exists to ensure fair competition and prevent monopolies in tech.

“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,” said Oliver Bethell, Google’s senior director of competition.

“People use Search for their most personal questions – from medical worries to close relationships – and mandating we share these personal queries without adequate safeguards would cause irreversible harm to user privacy.”

Google argues the data would go to unvetted businesses without users’ knowledge or consent, and that once it leaves Google’s systems, third parties could re-identify users and expose their personal lives, trade secrets, or sensitive government information. Advances in AI have made that kind of re-identification far faster and cheaper, the company adds.

As the Epoch Times notes further, the EU-enforced changes are set to kick in in January 2027.

Google’s challenges, filed in the Luxembourg-based General Court, Europe’s second-highest court, on Sept. 28, will not prevent them from taking effect unless the California company seeks interim measures to delay them as proceedings continue.

A European Commission spokesperson told The Epoch Times that the commission “takes note that Alphabet has announced that it will lodge an appeal against the Commission’s decisions at the General Court. As always, the Commission will defend its decisions in court.”

The Commission added that it should be “stressed that the two specification decisions carefully consider the integrity and security with respect to the features involved, as well as ensuring the protection of the personal data of end users.”

At the time, the commission said the first decision aimed to ensure that competitors’ AI services “can compete with Google’s own AI services, such as Gemini, by having equal access to features on Google’s Android devices.”

The aim of the second, the EU said, was to “rebalance the playing field by giving third-party search engines access to search data that only Google Search can collect at scale.”

Google’s move marks the latest escalation in the company’s long-running battle with European regulators over the scope of the Digital Markets Act.

The tech giant has already been slapped with multiple fines totaling billions of dollars in recent years after a series of European court rulings found it had breached aspects of the Act.

The targeting of Google and other American tech giants such as Apple, Meta, and Amazon by EU authorities has drawn criticism from Washington, with President Donald Trump saying in July that his administration would open a formal investigation into the EU’s trade practices, threatening new tariffs over billions of dollars in fines leveled against U.S. tech companies.

In a Truth Social post on July 24, Trump said the investigation would begin “immediately” under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the president to protect U.S. businesses against unfair trade practices with tariffs and sanctions.

He accused the EU of “robbing” U.S. companies and, in turn, American taxpayers.

“The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!” Trump wrote, referring to European enforcement actions over recent years against Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon.

As yet, there have been no public revelations regarding that investigation.