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Google's privacy policy now has a loophole for using your Gmail and Photos data in ads

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Cutting corners: Plenty of people keep a big chunk of their lives stored in Gmail and Google Photos, from flight bookings and receipts to years of family pictures. For years, Google has said none of that content would be used to pick the ads they see. That promise now comes with an exception – and it applies to anyone who lets the company's AI dig through those apps.

The change sits in Google's updated privacy policy, which took effect on October 16 and was first spotted by Android Authority. The policyhas long said, "We don't show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos." That line is still there, but it now ends with a qualifier: "unless you choose to make data from these services available to other...

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Topping's well-built new DAC is stuffed with features and makes a real difference to a desktop system, but it doesn't grab me be the lapels