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Google’s Gemini team is apparently sending out emails about an upcoming change to how Gemini interacts with apps on Android devices. The email informs users that, come July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to “help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Naturally, this has raised some privacy concerns among those who’ve received the email and those using the AI assistant on their Android devices.

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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

this can be great for a disabled person i guess, i wonder if it works locally in a degoogled way

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[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago

“Google is making it easier for Google to pry into your personal data.”

“Water is making it easier for water to make you wet.”

[–] TingoTenga@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Let's not stop at Google. Break them all up!

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[–] EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apple has been seriously underperforming on their AI strategy.

Really makes it easy to keep using their devices.

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 66 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Pretty sure I disabled Gemini as one of the first things I did when I got my phone. But, yes when I read that, to me it did seem like a serious overreach for something that was going to be "on by default" for most users.

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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 day ago (13 children)
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[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 12 points 1 day ago

Few years ago I got a Nest Secure to go with my other Google Nest gear. One day Google emailed me to tell me Assistant was now enabled on my security system. Oh, by the way, it has an undocumented microphone!

That’s when I realized what a privacy nightmare Google really is. I know Apple isn’t great but come on.

[–] rumba@piefed.zip 49 points 1 day ago

I guess my next phone is going to run NixOS.

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