Google has updated its privacy policy, explicitly stating that it has the right to scrape and use any information users post online to build its AI tools.
The policy explains that Google uses this information to improve its services and develop new products and technologies for the benefit of its users and the public. The company mentions specific products like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities that are built using publicly available information. This update expands on the previous policy, which only mentioned using data for “language models,” and now includes AI models as well. Google’s ability to harvest data from the entire internet raises new privacy concerns and challenges the traditional understanding of public posts.
