Google updates its privacy policy to allow data scraping for AI training

Google has made updates to its privacy policy which now allows it to take any publicly available data and use it for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes.

The update to the company’s privacy policy came on July 1 and can be compared to previous versions of the policy via a link published on the site’s

Twitter’s recent change in the number of tweets users are able to access depending on their account verification status has caused rumors across the internet that it was imposed partially due to AI data scraping.

The documents of Twitter’s developers read that rate limits were imposed as a method to manage the volume of requests made to Twitter’s application program interface (API).

Elon Musk, the owner and former CEO of Twitter recently tweeted about the platform “getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users.”

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