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Google’s Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can’t be disabled

As part of the wider tech industry’s wider push for AI, whether we want it or not, it seems that Google’s Gemini AI service is now reading private Drive documents without express user permission, per a report from Kevin Bankster on Twitter embedded below…

https://x.com/KevinBankston/status/1811075836558114968

“Just pulled up my tax return in
@Google
Docs–and unbidden, Gemini summarized it. So…Gemini is automatically ingesting even the private docs I open in Google Docs? WTF, guys. I didn’t ask for this. Now I have to go find new settings I was never told about to turn this crap off.”

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I migrated away from Drive some years back, soon after they sent me an automated notice that they were scanning my files without my permission.

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1) An email today from [ Photobucket <community@notice.photobucket.com> ]
2) I thought that I had deleted my account last year, but it shows up as deactivated.
3) Login to Photobucket appears to be through Google.
4) snips from the email:
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Important Notice to Photobucket Users:
These changes take effect on July 22nd. By continuing to use the Photobucket services such as having us store your uploaded content, after July 22nd, you consent to the updated Terms of Use, the updated Privacy Policy, and the new Biometric Information Privacy Policy.
. . .
Updated Terms of Use include:
Updated information about the rights you grant us, including the right to the extent permitted by the laws of your region, to license or sell your Public User Uploaded Content to third parties for the scanning and processing of your Public User Uploaded Content, including extracting physical features, e.g. measurements, of your Biometric Information, solely for the purpose of artificial intelligence and machine learning training and the subsequent uses derived therefrom.
. . .
Updated Privacy Policy includes:
Information on how we collect, use, store, transfer, and otherwise process your personal data, including information about the rights you grant us, including the right to the extent permitted by the laws of your region, to license or sell your Public User Uploaded Content to third parties for the scanning and processing of your Public User Uploaded Content, including extracting physical features, e.g. measurements, of your Biometric Information, solely for the purpose of artificial intelligence and machine learning training and the subsequent uses derived therefrom.
. . .
New Biometric Information Policy includes:
Information about the rights you grant us, including the right to the extent permitted by the laws of your region, to license or sell your Public User Uploaded Content to third parties for the scanning and processing of your Public User Uploaded Content, including extracting physical features, e.g. measurements, of your Biometric Information, solely for the purpose of artificial intelligence and machine learning training and the subsequent uses derived therefrom.
. . .
If you do not agree with the updated Terms of Use, the updated Privacy Policy, and/or the new Biometric Information Privacy Policy, you can opt-out within forty-five (45) days of July 22nd by deleting your account. Click here to start the opt-out process or contact us at support@photobucket.com
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But the ‘click here’ [link] process eventually leads to an un-bypassable Catch-22 (possibly a bug).  I’ve just used the ‘support@’ option.

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