Heather Adkins, Google’s Vice President of Security Engineering, warned that the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) could cause a significant rise in fraud within weeks. The proposed pro-competition rules require Google to open its Android and Search platforms to rival companies.
Google claims that sharing search data with competitors creates severe privacy and security vulnerabilities. Internal security teams successfully re-identified individuals from data anonymized using EU-proposed methods in less than two hours. This warning marks an escalation in the industry-wide pushback against the DMA’s interoperability and data-sharing mandates.