Google Already Knows Everything About You — And Their New AI Features Make It Worse

About this episode

The episode discusses Google's new AI features and their implications for personal data privacy and business fraud.

Send us Fan Mail Google just revealed the future of Search at Google I/O and Google Marketing Live — and it’s far more personal, predictive, and invasive than most people realize. In this episode of Near Memo, Mike Blumenthal and Greg Sterling break down: A massive fake Google Business Profile fraud case involving 15,000 fake listings and $79 million in alleged fraudHow Google already infers your income, politics, preferences, and buying habits — even WITHOUT opting into “Personal Intelligenc...

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike Blumenthal, Greg Sterling

Topics covered

• Google Search
• AI features
• personal data
• privacy
• fraud
• business profiles

Keywords

• Google
• AI
• Search
• privacy
• fraud
• business profiles
• personal data

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Organizations: Google

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