Privacy at risk starting from 10 October: as announced in advance from Googlein fact, a new automatic function will be active that will allow the Mountain View giant to analyze the content of the e -mail messages coming on Gmail. No authorization request: from next Friday this phase will start completely automatically, even if fortunately there is a way to deactivate it.
But what exactly is it about? The name of the functionality is “Ai enhanced classification and review”, and how it is possible to derive from its name it is a system that will work through the artificial intelligence of Google, i.e. Gemini. Once again the primary objective is to collect information, up to the content of the e -mail messages on Gmail, to pack ad hoc advertisements for users, to be converted into advice and advertising banners, which will appear both on Gmail and on the other services offered by the company.
According to what is circulated on the web, to end up under the magnifying glass of Google will not only be the addresses of the recipient, but also those of the sender, the object of the email, the body of the message and also any attached files. Gemini will base its scan on a series of keywords and concepts, thanks to which to grasp the information it is looking for and finally profiling the user.
Apparently this should not mean an integral or manual reading of the e -mail message, but a targeted scan, based on a series of precise keywords and functional to profiling with promotional purposes. This does not mean that the news of the intrusion has not triggered a privacy alarm on the net, and many users who use Gmail They are already providing to defuse this risk in advance through a simple method.
For eliminate The “Ai Enhanced ranking and review”, active by default for everyone starting from Friday 10 October, simply operate from your main page of Gmail and click on the enrap at the top right to access the “View all settings” area. Once this is done, it will be sufficient to deactivate the Four options At risk, that is to say intelligent writing, customization of intelligent writing, reminders and smart functionality. Once this is done, Gemini will no longer have the authorizations to be able to proceed with the scan by keywords.
As a further system
Protection, it is also possible to click on “Manage your Google account” and therefore from “data and privacy” deactivate “web activities and apps”: in doing so Google will not analyze the data when surfing the net.