| | Google is rolling out generative A.I. features in Gmail, marking one of the biggest changes to email in decades. New tools help users search emails with questions, summarize threads, generate replies, proofread messages, and automatically create to-do lists from inbox content. Some features are free, while advanced tools require a paid A.I. subscription. The upcoming AI Inbox offers a high-level, task-focused overview that cuts through email clutter. While the tools can improve productivity, they raise privacy concerns because Google’s A.I. assistant needs access to users’ emails. Google says no humans read inbox content, but legal access remains possible, leaving some users undecided.
| | | #Email Privacy #AI Inbox #Gmail #AI #Gemini AI | | | | | | | | The order, first proposed a year ago, bans GM from collecting and then selling geolocation data to third parties, like data brokers and insurance companies. | | | #Driving Behavior #Location Data #General Motors #OnStar Telematics Service #LexisNexis #Verisk | | | | | | | | If you’re a TikTok user in the U.S., the platform has rolled out updated terms of service and a revised privacy policy, and the changes matter. As Wired explains, one major shift concerns location tracking. If you grant TikTok access to your phone’s location services, the app can now collect highly granular data about your exact whereabouts. The update also expands what counts as collectible data by explicitly including users’ interactions with any of TikTok’s AI tools, which the company may collect and store. Finally, TikTok is broadening how it uses the data it gathers, allowing it to power more targeted advertising not only within the app, but across the wider web as you browse elsewhere. | | | #Data Privacy #Data Collection #TikTok #U.S. #Location Data # Targeted Advertising | | | | | | | | A proposed all cash merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. raises major privacy concerns for viewers. Combining the platforms would merge vast stores of sensitive data, including viewing habits, searches, and location, across tens of millions more users. Regulators are increasingly scrutinizing whether consumers originally consented to such data sharing and whether protections will remain consistent after a merger. Past fines and lawsuits show the risks are real, and viewers may be uneasy about their viewing histories being reused, transferred, or exposed to weaker security once systems and data are combined. | | | #Netflix #Warner Bros. #Data Transfer Policy #Data Privacy | | | | | | | | The inevitable is beginning. Ads will roll out inside ChatGPT for free users and its new low cost ChatGPT Go plan, a move that may feel uncomfortably familiar to anyone who uses an ad blocker for a reason. While OpenAI promises ads will be clearly labeled, separated from conversations, and not influenced by chat content, they will be personalized by default and embedded directly into an AI tool many people treat as a neutral assistant. For privacy minded users, this raises red flags about tracking, profiling, and the gradual normalization of ads inside everyday digital tools. | | | #Personalized Ads #ChatGPT #OpenAI | | | | | | | | | | Your Privacy, Our Mission | Support Ghostery with a one-time donation! This powers even more advanced tracker & ad blocking technologies. And keeps Ghostery privacy protection free for everyone.
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