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For months, Google has been promoting its Gemini AI model and all of the ways it can make life easier, such as giving you more specific answers to questions, providing research, or streamlining processes. The company also recently rolled out Gemini to its newer smartphones and smart home devices, phasing out its long-time Google Assistant. But despite these conveniences, Google's latest privacy policy update, first noticed by Android Authority , suggests it can now send you increasingly targeted ads based on data gathered from some of its connected apps and services.

Despite this quietly-added policy caveat, Google still says it won't pull data from Drive or Photos for ads automatically. However (and this is a big however), should you choose to grant Google's AI tools and search features access to files in apps like Gmail, Photos, or Drive, that data is fair game.…