No Opt-Out for AI Training Data Use in Productivity Suites
Google Docs and similar productivity tools collect user data for advertising profiling and use document content to train AI models with no meaningful opt-out mechanism. Users creating sensitive business or personal documents have no control over downstream data use. Regulatory pressure is increasing but enforcement lags behind actual data practices.
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