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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps


Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.

An email Google sent recently informing users of the change linked to a notification page that said that “human reviewers (including service providers) read, annotate, and process” the data Gemini accesses. The immediate takeaway seems to be that Google may be bolting Gemini into Android in much the way Microsoft did with Internet Explorer into Windows, a move that landed the software maker in a protracted antitrust suit with the federal government and a dozen states, commonwealths, or districts in the late 1990s. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.

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