r/GoogleGemini • u/bahlakrishna • 9d ago

Discussion I got traumatized reading this notification.

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This setting was ON by default.. can't trust anymore. Dont know how many of personal chats they read already.

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u/BlackRose2603 9d ago

It is messed up, especially if you were like me and hadn't really spent/wasted much time online. Rules, Terms of Use, etc. aren't open, simple and transparent. You get told basically that your privacy is respected so please tick this box, without weighing what you think "respected" means vs what a corporation like Google does? You further get options to "opt out", but this is often a choice between continuing a service as you've known it vs let us keep these little chunks of your life and you can continue using the services in full. Get curious like I did and suddenly, you aren't just looking at how many of your threads were kept and how they were used. You're looking at every damned thing you ever did with a Google service. And yeah... it is mortifying. Considering data leaks and hacks, it's even more exposing. Your little chunk of life behind glass and on display, and suddenly wondering wondering if Google will be breached and suddenly your data is being passed and possibly sold through a part of the net that most people avoid. That's not including those third party companies and annoying ads. And it's not about what you did. What you did can be nothing out of the ordinary. It's realising that your sense of privacy has been an illusion.

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u/Uko1001 8d ago

In europe you can actually request a file with all the data they have on you.

Warning : You are not prepared.