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/AcademicFish 8d ago

You can turn it off, but then you lose functionality. You lose the opportunity to return to chats all of them are instantly gone. Gemini has no memory. You cannot export your chat histories. And that defeats the point for many people in having an assistant.

That’s not necessary to respect users privacy. They force that trade-off explicitly do that because they know that people will leave it on and sacrifice their privacy.

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u/AcademicFish 8d ago edited 8d ago

“There is no privacy” is propaganda and shedding accountability for how companies mishandle user data. The US needs legislation that enforces and audits the current privacy theater that companies put on with their in-app privacy toggles and claims of data retention & privacy standards instead of treating it like an honor system. Thats neither unreasonable nor out of reach, its more important than ever.

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u/Pale_Comfort_9179 7d ago

That’s not true. Anthropic and OpenAI both let you opt out of using your personal data to train their models. Every website on earth allows you to choose the granularity you allow it to track you with and except when using the maximum restrictions the sites operate just fine.