New Google Gemini setting could give AI tool broad access to users' Macs

By Emma Woollacott for IT PRO
Thursday, October 8, 2026

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Google is expected to introduce full access permissions for Gemini that would allow it to access any file on a macOS device, open apps, browse the web, and perform actions without asking for permission every time.

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The news highlights the lengths to which vendors will go to gain access to high-quality, up-to-date and unique AI training data, according to Ilia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb.

"Today, 99% of websites, online archives and web libraries have erected technical barriers to ban AI data scrapers, leaving AI vendors without access to free data,” he said.

“We will almost certainly see all major AI companies following Google and collecting their AI training data via various 'creative' techniques.”

Kolochenko added that access to training data is an “existential question for all Ai vendors,” but most will “probably accept the risk”.

The situation is even riskier for smaller vendors, he noted, many of whom are limited by funds and other resources to procure training data for in-house AI models.

"They form the so-called AI training pools, where hundreds of smaller players submit some data and, in exchange, can use all other data from the pool," he said. "Eventually, once you share your data with a small AI startup, it may end up in thousands of wrong hands around the globe." Read Full Article