EU to Provide Google with Data-Sharing Compliance Guidance

By Edith Hancock

The European Union has launched a new legal process to help Alphabet's Google comply with the bloc's digital-competition rulebook.

The European Commission said Tuesday that it had opened so-called specification proceedings into Google's compliance with the Digital Markets Act, a law designed to level the playing field for companies that rely on search engines and app stores to reach customers.

One of the proceedings' focus will be on features used by Google's artificial-intelligence services, such as its chatbot Gemini, it said. The Commission said it will tell Google how it should grant rival AI-service providers equal access to features and tools used by Google's own services. It also said it will assist Google with complying with provisions that concern how the company lets competing search engines access datasets for areas such as ranking and queries held by Google Search.

"Android is open by design, and we're already licensing Search data to competitors under the DMA. However, we are concerned that further rules which are often driven by competitor grievances rather than the interest of consumers, will compromise user privacy, security and innovation," Clare Kelly, Google's senior competition counsel for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said in a statement.

Write to Edith Hancock at edith.hancock@wsj.com

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January 27, 2026 05:22 ET (10:22 GMT)