Google has enabled Gemini to access Google Photos face data, Gmail, YouTube history and search activity for personalized AI image generation for US paid subscribers as of April 2026. The Hacker News thread cites vucense.com documenting the expansion of the Personal Intelligence feature and prior EU regulatory objections under GDPR to biometric scanning of personal photos (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825520; https://vucense.com/privacy-sovereignty/surveillance-biometr...). EU enforcement records from 2022-2023 show Google received multiple GDPR fines exceeding €1 billion for similar data consent failures (European Commission archives). Commenters noted Google's history of default-on settings and delayed toggles. A 2024 Reuters report on EU AI Act implementation details parallel biometric classification rules that flag such systems as high-risk, requiring explicit consent mechanisms Google has contested in ongoing proceedings. The original coverage omits Google's 2023 Gemini launch documentation that already referenced multimodal training on user-derived datasets (Google DeepMind technical reports). Irish Data Protection Commission rulings against Meta in 2024 for comparable training data practices illustrate an industry pattern of launching first in the US market then negotiating EU compliance retroactively, a sequence repeated with Gemini's photo integration.