Google’s top privacy and security staff have warned that plans in Europe, designed to get it to open up its search data and Android operating system to competitors, could lead to people’s search queries being hacked and an increase in cybercrime across the content, according to multiple interviews and documents shared with WIRED. Mountain View’s alarm comes as European Commission officials are set to make final decisions next month in two cases, around Google Search and Android interoperability, under the European Union’s landmark Digital Markets Act competition rules. The rules, which were fi...
Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
