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Google can now use your Gmail, Drive and Photos data to personalise ads, but there’s a catch

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Access Google’s Privacy Policy here. On October 16, Google updated its privacy policy to permit ad personalisation using data from Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos, but only for users who allow…

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