July 18, 2026

🇪🇺 EU forces Google to hand over search data to AI rivals

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🇪🇺 EU forces Google to hand over search data to AI rivals Brussels just dropped a hammer on Google. Under the Digital Markets Act, the EU is forcing the search giant to share its goldmine of European user data, queries, clicks, rankings, and views, with competitors, including AI chatbots from OpenAI, Perplexity, and others. No more privacy. Starting 2027, Google must provide anonymized search intel on fair terms to level the playing field. The goal: fuel better rival AI and search engines. Google is fighting back hard, warning the move risks exposing sensitive user searches on health, finance, and family, claiming weak anonymization could let AI re-identify people in hours. @aipost 🏴

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