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Google Defaults to AI Training on Australian User Data

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechRepublic ·

Google has enabled a new default setting that uses Australian workplace data from Search, Lens, and Translate to train its AI models. The change raises privacy concerns for businesses and individuals. Users must manually opt out to prevent their data from being used.

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The move highlights Google's aggressive data collection for AI, but the opt-out mechanism may not be obvious to most users.
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