The Amount Google’s AI Knows About You Will Cause an Uncomfortable Prickling Sensation on Your Scalp
Frank Landymore
created: Jan. 28, 2026, 7:09 p.m. | updated: Feb. 7, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
This was the experience of tech journalist Pranav Dixit, who experimented with using Google’s new “Personal Intelligence” feature for Gemini and its search engine’s AI Mode.
The AI was able to dig up everything from his license plate to his parents’ vacation history, sometimes without it being directly requested.
Google rolled out Personal Intelligence to subscribers of Google AI Pro and AI Ultra last week.
If the idea of letting an AI prowl through all this sounds like a privacy nightmare to you, you’re probably not wrong.
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