The point: Google trains AI models with images, audio and video from its search services, with data retention tied to existing user activity settings.
Google collects images, audio and video from its search services to train AI models. Whether and how long these data are stored depends on the user’s activity settings.
Google draws on media data from its search queries to train AI models. This includes images, audio and video content captured through Google search services.
For data protection officers, this is key: the storage of these data is not blanket, but is subject to the user’s existing activity settings. Depending on how these are configured, it determines how long Google stores and processes the media data.
The approach illustrates how companies activate user data from existing services for new AI use cases – often without new explicit consent, but through linking to already granted settings.
Source: www.golem.de · Published 7 July 2026
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