Efficiency comes at a price, secrecy resides in iPhone

Furthermore, while Google assures to “implement measures” to safeguard privacy during this procedure, like disconnecting chats from the Google account, it evidently does not consider these measures flawless, as indicated by the warning (presented in bold text, mirroring how Google presented it on its own site): “Kindly refrain from sharing sensitive data in your conversations, or any information you wouldn’t want an examiner to access or Google to utilize for enhancing our products, services, and artificial intelligence technologies.”

Who monitors the monitors?

At present, I lack knowledge regarding the identities of those human evaluators employed by Google, their locations, compensations, or the degree to which they may have been influenced by surveillance operations. However, I speculate that certain teams might be commissioned by third-party firms acting on behalf of Google.

If this is true, then when utilizing Gemini, you may also be inadvertently disclosing your requests to external suppliers whom you may not “recognize or have confidence in,” and even though this information might be anonymized by excluding names, phone numbers, the original request remains exposed – which could be excessive data to divulge in the first instance.

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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