They have access to people’s private emails and documents, and more & more of your data is being used to train their AI models. These situations will increasingly happen.
The best thing you can do is move to a provider that keeps your information private.
I’m happy this story is getting attention. I don’t think many people are surprised anymore that Google reads everything posted to its servers, but apparently some still are.
Nothing you store in the cloud is private, unless you encrypt it before you upload it.
You also need to make sure that encryption is strong and not based on a password, because will try to decrypt it.
As long is there’s a strong enough key derivation function, and the password is decently strong, then there’s no issue with the encryption being based in a password
Unless you use the same password as for your Google account or one of the password you’ve saved in Chrome previously.
Yes of course, never reuse passwords. Because then your password is only as strong at the weakest link
What might that even be? A private Google doc?
Aren’t they opposites?
Essentially, it was a normal doc not shared with anyone (i.e. not made public), and the dev erroneously thought that meant Google wasn’t scraping their uploads for training data.
Gemini spat out details from the doc to a fan, shocking only people who think Big Tech honors people’s privacy.
Ah yes, now that you mention it. LOL back in the day there were actually some folks who believed you could still own your data after uploading it to somebody else. LOL these fools!
Easy solution: don’t use Google, don’t use AI (or Microsoft, Apple, etc.)
We’ve been saying this for decades. It’s like a leopard ate their faces.
Story time:
me. Have a gemail. Connect to it from home using the google ISP Gfiber.
my friend. Comes to my house. Works in a google doc. They wants to share it with me. Click the “share” button: the first email that shows up is mine.
This is the kicer: WE HAVE NOT EXCHANGED ANY EMAIL, DOC, OR ANYTHING IN GOOGLE EVER BEFORE
The only common thing that I can imagine: the wifi. Google identifies and assigns an owner to evory device in your LAN.
