According to Forbes, Google announced a new experimental AI productivity agent called “CC” from Google Labs on Tuesday. It’s built with Gemini and connects to a user’s Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive to deliver a daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing. The service is launching in early access for Google consumer account users aged 18 and over in the U.S. and Canada, starting with Google AI Ultra and other paid subscribers. Access requires joining a waitlist, and Google emphasizes that CC is a standalone experimental service. User data processed by CC is handled under the standard Google Privacy Policy, which involves significant data collection and analysis.
The shiny new toy
So, what is this thing? Basically, it’s an AI that tries to be your personal chief of staff. It scans your emails, your calendar appointments, and your Drive files to build a summary of your day. It can draft emails for you, prepare calendar links, and you can even email it directly with requests. On the surface, that sounds incredibly useful. Who wouldn’t want a single, clear summary instead of juggling three different apps?
Here’s the catch
But here’s the thing: to do any of that, it needs a breathtaking level of access. We’re not talking about reading one email thread. CC requires permission to read, analyze, and synthesize everything across your core Google account. That’s a massive privacy trade-off wrapped in a free, shiny package. Google says your data is processed per its Privacy Policy, and you should read it. They’re right. Most people won’t, but the implications are huge.
This launch comes at a weird time, too. The same week we get this powerful new data-hungry agent, security researchers are screaming about unfixable prompt injection vulnerabilities in AI. So we’re being asked to hand over the keys to our digital lives to a system that, by its very nature, might be inherently vulnerable to manipulation. Does that seem wise?
Time to decide
Now, Google is being upfront that this is an “early Labs experiment.” You can check out the announcement blog and the waitlist page yourself. The question every user has to ask is the one Forbes poses: Do I genuinely need this? Will I use it? Or am I just trading my privacy for a novelty that might wear off?
I think the real test is this: if this tool required a monthly subscription fee instead of your data, would you still sign up? For most people, the answer is probably no. And that tells you everything about what’s really being exchanged here. It’s a classic Google move—offer incredible convenience for free, and the product is you. The decision, as they say, is yours. Just make it a deliberate one.
