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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Changes to Google Privacy Policies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Thu Jun 4 23:20:54 2026
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 20:11:34 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
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Changes to Google Privacy Policies
Google is rolling out changes to their privacy policies broadly across
their services. While most of these appear to be fairly
straightforward reorganization of existing history, etc. controls in a
more logical manner, one change in particular drew my attention
immediately.
Google says they will now (unless this history setting is off) SAVE
any media you send to Google (e.g., Image Lens Search, etc.) and
these will be used to train Google AI. AFAIK, this is a completely new
conduit for Google to obtain imagery and other media to train their
AI, where previously search history would be saved (unless disabled)
without any associated media.
Google collecting media from users for AI training in this way would
seem to have a number of very problematic aspects, at least as I
understand this right now. If I learn more about this I'll let you know.
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