Google’s privacy maze: How Gemini traps you and your data

Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.

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[sigmasirrus]

I wonder if they just straight up asked users if they wanted AI or not how many would say Yes?

 

[OK Cardiologist]

They’ve always been slippery bastards, you have to be a power user just to know where these settings are to turn off, and that’s until they change their location or embed them in something else. It’s like trying to get your bearings in a landscape that’s always changing. If only I didn’t choose them as my main email.

The idea of Google having AI analytics is terrifying. Now they not only know what you want to buy, but how you think.

 

[BilTheGalacticHero]

This article got me to check my Gmail setting and I'd already turned all the Smart Features off. Same with Activity in Gemini. Thanks for the reminder to keep an eye on that.

 

[Lorentz of Suburbia]

Unfortunately, Google doesn’t make it easy to leave Gemini behind.

Fortunately it is rather easy to leave Google behind.

Have zero interaction with Google products and/or services for years now.

Ouch, though, if you’ve been a True Believer for so long you’ve put your entire life in Google.

 

[DanNeely]

To fully block AI training on your data, you need to turn off a feature called Gemini Apps Activity.

Is this just generating a bogus error because I fully disabled Gemini at some point in the past (which no one in google bothered to test since they assume everyone is gargling AI); or a real indication of something being broken?

 

[whquaint]

AKA “Privacy Zuckering”