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There's a new feature in the Google Bard AI assistant: connections to your other Google apps, primarily Gmail and Google Drive, called Bard Extensions. It means you can use Bard to look up and analyze the information you have stored in documents and emails, as well as data aggregated from the web at large. Bard can access other Google services besides Gmail and Google Drive as well, including YouTube, Google Maps, and Google Flights.
The company specifically warns against putting confidential information into Bard, and any reviewed prompts won't have your Google Account details attached to them. Prompts reviewed by humans can be retained by Google for up to three years, even if you delete your Bard activity. Even with Bard activity-logging turned off, conversations are kept in Bard's memory banks for 72 hours, in case you want to add related questions.
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