@thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social
Post #3586456
2026-07-04 18:00 UTC
Google quietly removes the on-device AI privacy assurance from Chrome's Settings UI
Google has quietly removed the privacy assurance from Chrome's on-device AI Settings UI. The sentence promising that the model runs locally without sending data to Google's servers has been deleted, and the toggle moved out of the System block to reduce the chance the change is noticed. There are three plausible reasons for tha…
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/google-quietly-removes-on-device-ai-privacy-claim
#ai #chrome #consent #compliance #eprivacy #gdpr #google
Replies (2)
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@SaanichGuy@mstdn.ca 2026-07-04 19:58
@thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social glad I don’t use Chrome. Google is part of the evil empire
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@en3py@onlyarts.social 2026-07-06 08:19
@thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social supposing how the legal department works at big-G, I believe they will do the exact opposite of the three requests: - either do no public statement or try to bury it in an easy to delete place (like the setting) - do further very foggy changes to the setting - definitively not do an opt-in function (as they should with everything in the EU) All of the above have been on their playbook for too long now. They should be sanctioned a lot harder than until now.