If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

Source: techcrunch.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center · Published: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:04:58 GMT

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models.

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The same story across the political spectrum (15 sources)

Left: Expert reveals what keeps Trump up at night: 'This is just neurotic' — www.rawstory.com
Center-Left: Google now uses your uploaded search media to train AI — www.engadget.com
Center: “Catastrophic Mismanagement” And AI Gambits Led To Mass Xbox Layoffs, Expert Says — www.gamespot.com
Center-Left: Google will now count all Android backup data toward your storage cap — www.engadget.com
Center: Your data built the AI boom — but Big Tech is pocketing 100% of the equity — www.marketwatch.com
Right: How Google went from American innovation to tech stagnation — www.theblaze.com

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