https://hackingpassion.com/tags/gdpr/Recent content in Gdpr on HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]HugoenWed, 06 May 2026 13:41:41 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/chrome-gemini-nano-silent-install/Wed, 06 May 2026 13:41:41 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/chrome-gemini-nano-silent-install/<p>Google Chrome installed a <strong>4 GB AI model</strong> on your machine without asking. The pitch is that it runs locally, keeping your data off Google&rsquo;s servers. The AI button you actually see in your browser sends everything to Google anyway.</p> <p>Privacy researcher <strong>Alexander Hanff</strong> found this during a routine web audit in late April and published his full analysis on 4 May 2026, two days ago. He had built a Chrome profile to run automated tests, the kind where software loads web pages in the background and measures what happens. The profile received no human input whatsoever: nobody moved the mouse, hit a key, or touched the address bar. Chrome just ran quietly in the background doing its thing.</p>