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I can confirm this. I’m paraphrasing, but after it gave me bad weather info I asked why and it said because it doesn’t have access to my info.

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It gave me the weather in NYC. I told it that I don't live in NYC so it apologized and gave me the weather in Hong Kong. I told it that I don't live in Hong Kong and it gave me the weather in Seoul. It definitely doesn't appear to have basic access to account info. This is stuff that Google Assistant can do.

I think it has access to do Google searches on your behalf.

The results of those searches may be personalized to you.

Therefore, it has indirect access to a lot of your private data, but direct access to almost none.

If it were really smart it would’ve guessed the largest cities in US/UK since those are the only places it’s available.

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