Imagine the day when you go to some web site and see a picture of your wife, with a caption saying something like, “isn’t it time that you talked to your doctor about Viagra?” How about those pre video ads on YouTube with your dead grandma, telling you to consider cremation?
What does that really mean, to use your data for ad targeting? Can they use your pictures to generate an AI image of those you love?
I see lots of posts that it doesn’t affect you because you’re not on Google services. What about that friend who took pictures at last week’s happy hour? Grandma sharing pictures of her favorite granddaughter with her pickle ball group? Unless you’re a hermit, you can’t stop the slow trickle of your personal data being sucked up and stored for generations. It’s your data, where are the laws to protect it?
Google: We would never use your Gmail to target ads. Also Google: If you voluntarily pour your Gmail into our AI blender, whatever comes out may help target ads. Technically, we’re not reading your diary. We’re just selling billboards next to the therapist’s summary of it. Privacy by wordplay is still surveillance with better PR.
Also the features you always used to use are now part of our AI system and continuing to use them counts as voluntarily agreeing to the new terms.
Makes me sick. We no longer have any right to privacy and they have no respect for ours. The entire digital landscape is becoming a liability.
Have fun. I moved to Proton years ago.
More unfiltered bullshit in inbox just means the remaining people will leave Gmail
It’s almost like being allowed to move King to Checkmate or check or whatever. Chess, mofo.
