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Google quietly changes privacy policy so your Gmail and Photos could be used in targeted ads - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has updated its privacy policy to allow personal information from Gmail, Google Photos, and Drive to potentially be used for targeted advertising, raising new questions about how the company handles users’ private data.

The change, which took effect on October 16, introduces a significant exception to Google’s previous promise that it would not use content from these services to personalize advertisements.

As first spotted by Android Authority, the updated policy specifically affects users who connect their personal information to Google’s AI-powered services, including Search and Gemini.

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[–] joeschmoe@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

Fucking hell. Time to take all the photos down. It's been at least a decade since a photo has been uploaded there, because I knew Google can't be trusted and I disabled the automatic upload, just hadn't taken the already uploaded images down. On top of that, for months I have been in the process of moving off gmail to Zoho Mail. Fuck Google.

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[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Taking your photos down may not remove them from their dataset. If they really wanted to they could restore them for their dataset. You wouldn't ever know.

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