Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Google is using AI to spy on you without asking for you to opt-in

Lawrence has the details.  You can turn the damn stuff off. And oh by the way, they're getting sued over it.

3 comments:

danielbarger said...

Of course they are. And only a fool actually believes they can really "opt out" or erase their I fo from the cloud. Once Big Tech has info it NEVER relinquishes it.

Old NFO said...

Ggrrrr...done

Spamtrap said...

If Google wants to spy on us, why don't we give Google something to chew on.

I don't know what AI commands we could include in our e-mails but I'm sure there are commands to reset the model or something like that.

For that matter, try sending gibberish. A couple decades ago, I tried an experiment where I attached phony MIME files to me e-mails. These were not actual MIME files. They were simply 1,000 random characters. A few weeks later I got a phone call from a friend who works at one of those 3 letter agencies that doesn't exist and was firmly "requested" to stop doing this. Of course I complied but I also had my verification that "someone" was reading my e-mails.

Maybe I cannot prevent Big Data from gathering information on me but if I spoil that data with gibberish, it's useless to them.