How to Reduce Gemini AI’s Data-Collection Activities on Your Android Device

First, recognition: I like Google Assistant. This is useful and allows me to perform everyday tasks without unlocking my Android phone.

Just saying: “Hey Google”, I can create a reminder of the calendar, establish an alarm before take a nap, or ask how many years Ralph McKio was when he appeared in the first Karate Kid movie.

Oh, and I can say 'Lumos,' To turn on your flashlight and pretend that I am some kind of wizard, not a poor Muggle.

But soon Gemini will replace Google AssistantThe field according to the search giant, Gemini will provide “a new type of assistance only possible with the power of AI.”

Name me old -fashioned, but I do not need more AI. So far we have discovered that such tools as ChatGPT can affect your trainingI am still using it for my research, AI canva to create images for my work and the built -in artificial intelligence of my phone to make my lunar pictures more detailed than possible with its tiny image sensor.

Then there is the amount of data to which there are twins. In addition to access to Google applications, such as the calendar, documents and maps, it can also interact with third -party applications such as WhatsApp.

I admit that the opportunity to tell an assistant to artificial intelligence to do something for you on your phone is cool and convenient (for example, when you drive), but I have long been in the game so as not to look for potential data leaks.

To illustrate, here are a tiny example of data that Gemini gather when you interact with it:

• Location: According to Google, Gemini constantly collects your location to give you the appropriate answers to questions such as current weather or where the nearest coffee shop is located.
• Chats: A virtual AI AIS will also have access to your chats and can share them with human reviewers. Chats are stored on twin servers up to 72 hours.
• Other Gemini events Turn on the files that you download and information from the connected applications. By default, Gemini store this data for 18 months. The data considered by people is stored for three years, although Google claims that it is disconnected from your account.
• Other Google data: If you use Gemini to read your emails on Gmail, add your home and work addresses on Google cards or create events in your Google calendar, then Gemini will also have access to data from these applications.

Of course, I can connect these leaks by checking what data there is access in which application, but who has time for this?

6 steps to minimize that can access the AI ​​Gemini Ai data

Unfortunately, completely disconnecting yourself from the twins, as the Android user is easier to say than to do.

When I wrote this, I could still remove the ANI assistant from my device and return to Google Assistant. Nevertheless, it will not be in the future, when the first replaces the latter.

If you do not want to flash your phone using user ROM or switch to Google applications more confidentiality alternative to alternatives, perform these steps to control what goes through the twins.

1. Open the Gemini application, then press the icon of your profile.

2. Click “Actions of the Twin applications.”

3. Click “Turn off”, then click “Turn off and delete activity.”

4. Follow the instructions on the screen.

5. Return to the icon of your profile and click on applications from the menu.

6. Turn off the applications with which you do not want the twins to interact and share data.

You have it there. Of course, this will not help to completely protect your confidentiality, since the data can still occur through other applications that you use on your device. But the control that twins can access is a good start.

Your data, your rules are at least what is left of them

Like Tanos, Gemini, replacing Google Assistant, is inevitable. AI here, and with Google invests in it, it is unlikely to disappear in the near future. But this does not mean that you are completely powerless.

You can limit the fact that Gemini addresses your personal data with several simple steps. If you want, you can consider the possibility of switching to alternatives focused on confidentiality for your browser and email supplier.

In the end, the power to control your confidentiality in your hands is literally and figurative.

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