Google search-data probe hit by barriers to regulator cooperation, official says
By Matthew Newman ( October 13, 2026, 16:18 GMT | Insight) -- Cooperation between the EU’s antitrust enforcer and data protection authorities in a search data-sharing probe into Google has been impeded because of a lack of legal clarity on what kind of sensitive information can be exchanged between regulators, an EU data protection official has said. In July, the European Commission ordered Google to share anonymized search data with rival search engines, including AI services offering search functions, to help them compete with Google Search.Cooperation between the EU’s antitrust enforcer and data protection authorities in a search data-sharing probe into Google has been impeded because of a lack of legal clarity on what kind of sensitive information can be exchanged between regulators, an EU data protection official said Tuesday....
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