This is the best summary I could come up with:
That’s the PSA (of sorts) today from Google, which in a new support document outlines the ways in which it collects data from users of its Gemini chatbot apps for the web, Android and iOS.
Switching off Gemini Apps Activity in Google’s My Activity dashboard (it’s enabled by default) prevents future conversations with Gemini from being saved to a Google Account for review (meaning the three-year window won’t apply).
To be fair, Google’s GenAI data collection and retention policies don’t differ all that much from those of its rivals.
But Google’s policy illustrates the challenges inherent in balancing privacy with developing GenAI models that feed on user data to self-improve.
Liberal GenAI data retention policies have landed vendors in hot water with regulators in the recent past.
OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others offer GenAI products geared toward enterprises that explicitly don’t retain data for any length of time, whether for model training or any other purpose.
The original article contains 536 words, the summary contains 157 words. Saved 71%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
You should assume every online service saves all of your activity for years. Decades even. Why would anyone think google wouldn’t?
