By Brian Barrett,Zoë Schiffer,Leah Feiger
Publication Date: 2026-05-21 20:44:00
Leah Feiger: Yes definitely.
Brian Barrett: Adorable. OpenClaw, a small agent that can easily run autonomously, has access to all your data. Gemini Spark is Google’s answer to OpenClaw. It’s the same kind of autonomous assistant that can do anything, but because it’s Google, it has access to everything you do on Google or any app you plug in. So you can see how this becomes really powerful, and OpenClaw was already a privacy question mark, and even more so. You give him access to your Gmail, you give him access to your calendar, you give him access to everything you touch online, all your search history, and you just say, “Hey, do this. Remind me, do this.”
Leah Feiger: I couldn’t be less interested in a product.
Zoë Schiffer: We know.
Brian Barrett: But here’s the thing. I agree, it’s not for me, but something like this will be presented to billions of people at some point. The standard is the thing who doesn’t necessarily know it or understand it or…