Privacy risks to watch and simple ways to protect yourself
Chrome Quietly Installed a 4GB AI Model and Dropped Its Privacy Promise: Here’s How to Take Control Over the past week, a number of users noticed something odd about their Chrome browser: their disk space suddenly shrank by several gigabytes, with no obvious explanation. The culprit turned out to be a large AI model that Chrome had downloaded automatically, without asking. To make matters worse, Google appears to have quietly removed a previous guarantee that it would never enable AI features without explicit user consent. If you value keeping control over what software does on your machine, this is worth understanding — and there are concrete steps you can take right now. ...