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It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/its-official-eu-will-force-google-to-share-search-data-and-open-up-ai-on-android/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Ars Technica

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

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Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social 3 hours ago

@arstechnica

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Google would prefer to share private data with murderous petrostate despots instead.

For technofascist oligarchs, investors' rights come before human rights. Profits before people."

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://www.dw.com/en/google-cloud-plans-in-saudi-arabia-risk-lives/a-62169467

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-peter-thiel-rupert-murdoch-met-with-bin-salman-2020-1

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-13/trump-mbs-tout-1-trillion-saudi-deal-commitment

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/24/mohammed-bin-salman-mbs-saudi-arabia-yemen-war-crimes/

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@marcoxa@mastodon.social 5 days ago

@arstechnica The EU should force Google to give each user detailed storage filling data.

Sir David Nielsen

@DavidNielsen@mastodon.social 5 days ago

@arstechnica because nobody cares more about user privacy than Google, who are cordially invited to kiss my ass.