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Paper finds EU's Google Search data anonymization flawed

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A new paper critically reviews the European Commission's anonymization measures for Google Search data, mandated by the Digital Markets Act. Researchers found significant conceptual flaws and demonstrated that the proposed measures are insufficient to protect privacy, underestimating risks in free-text queries and sacrificing utility without achieving meaningful protection. The paper concludes that these measures do not meet the European Data Protection Board's criteria for anonymization and should not be treated as a sound practice. AI

RANK_REASON Academic paper critically reviewing a policy's technical implementation. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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Paper finds EU's Google Search data anonymization flawed

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Josep Domingo-Ferrer ·

    Anonymous in Name Only: A Critical Review and a Reidentification Exercise on the European Commission's Anonymization Measures for Google Search Data under Article 6(11) of the DMA

    In July 2026, the European Commission (EC) set out the anonymization measures Alphabet must implement to share Google Search data with competing search engines under Article 6(11) of the Digital Markets Act. As the first concrete illustration of how the EC operationalizes anonymi…

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