Indian Gemini users, if you are aware of Google Personal Intelligence and have been looking forward to it, you can rejoice because the wait is finally over. Google has rolled out Personal Intelligence in India, and it is one of more significant upgrades. The feature connects Gemini directly to your Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube history, and Search so you can be assured that it will know you better than your best friend does. You could ask it about your upcoming trip to Malaysia and it will pull your flight confirmations, find that restaurant screenshot you saved months ago, and suggest places based on the travel vlogs you have been watching on YouTube.
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It sounds impressive but it also raises a lot of questions about privacy. Gemini will be doing the mental labour of stitching together information from five apps for you. And for anyone who’s ever forwarded themselves an email just to remember a booking detail, or desperately scrolled through Photos hunting for a screenshot of directions, this could be very good. But then again, is this small comfort worth letting it poke around your search history?
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Because the feature asks for something in return, access. Google has been careful when looking at privacy guardrails. As you would expect, App connections are off by default and you get to choose what to link. You can disconnect anytime. Google has also clarified that it will not be training its models on your Gmail inbox or Google Photos, it will reference them to answer your questions only. Gemini will also mention its sources, so you can see exactly where it is picking the answers from.
They admit the beta can “over-personalise” – drawing connections between unrelated things – and may occasionally be inaccurate. The example they used is if Gemini sees hundreds of photos of you on a golf course, it might assume you love golf, completely missing that you were there for your kid’s tournament. These are small errors, but that’s bound to happen because it is just pattern-matching at scale, not genuine understanding.
So should you enable it? If you’re a heavy Gmail and Photos user who’s comfortable with Google already holding this data, the convenience payoff does exist at some point. You can maybe start out with Gmail only, test it for a week, and see if the responses feel useful or not. Then you can choose if you want to go ahead and give it more access or maybe lock it out entirely. I would probably start the same way.
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