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Google Privacy Change: Connected Search Data for Personalized Ads

Google's privacy policy effective Oct 16 added an exception to its 2021 commitment: after users connect Gmail, Drive or Photos to Search or the Gemini app, Search can use their summaries and inferences to personalize content, including ads; Google has begun testing ads for AI Mode users with connect · 2 stories

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  1. Oct 2509:02

    Google's Five-Year Privacy Pledge Loosens: Email and Photos Connected to Search Can Shape Ads

    the exception links the data channel that powers AI personalization to the ad system, so turning on Personal Intelligence also turns on ad personalization, and disconnecting is the switch back to the old boundary.

  2. 08:00

    Google Privacy Policy Change: Email and Photos Connected to Search Can Shape Personalized Ads

    Google's revised privacy policy, effective Oct 16, states that when users connect Gmail, Drive or Google Photos to Search or Gemini Apps, Search may process that data to personalize content, including ads.

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