Decide carefully as the new upgrade has confirmed it.
Republished on June 28 with new warnings despite Google’s insurance.
The 2 billion Google Gmail users face a critical decision because the company improves the main global messaging platform to use AI more. This means access to AI based on Google cloud all Your content – as personal and sensitive.
I warned before Gmail users must understand the risks before using all these new updates by default. It is not an accident or a surprise that the upgrades of the Gmail AI are in conflict with its almost end -to -end encryption upgrade. One is secure, the other is not.
The problem with Smart Ai Search and Smart Ai Resplus was confidentiality – pure and simple. This week, all Android users were struck by similar warnings, because a badly written e -mail of Google seemed to suggest that AI would access sensitive applications – including messages and WhatsApp – even if the gemini activity is deactivated.
“Gemini will soon be able to help you use the phone, messages, WhatsApp and public services on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps activity is activated or deactivated,” the e-mail told users. As Gizmodo Report: “Google to Gemini users: we will watch your texts, whether you like it or not.” And of course, everyone has read this email in the same way.
Google now told me that it was misleading – the update “is good for users”. Android phones “will use Gemini to perform daily tasks on their mobile devices such as sending messages, launching telephone calls and defining timer while the activity of Gemini applications is deactivated.”
What this really means is that the deactivation of the Gemini activity does not prevent it from working on phones, which would have happened before. But “with the activity of gemini applications deactivated, the cats of Gemini are not examined or used to improve our AI models.”
Before, if you wanted to use gemini with messaging applications, you should keep the gemini activity on which would be means these interactions saved. It is a nightmare of confidentiality and that is what Google has in fact repaired. This choice East Good news.
This welcome clarity reflects user concerns. But this is what is still lacking in the debate on Gmail AI, which was more an offer of taking or leaving the offer. I would also like to see the same choice of transparent and easy confidentiality for Gmail, before it goes much further.
A note of prudence. Any use of gemini on Android always records interactions for 72 hours in your account, even if Activity is extinguished. Keep this in mind.
And confidentiality warnings have not disappeared. By Android titles“Google’s GEMINI AI will soon be able to access applications such as the phone and messages, even if” the activity of the Gemini applications “is deactivated, from July 7, 2025. Although Google specifies that the deactivation of the activity always prevents data from being used for the training of TIA data, the change in concern of user confidentiality, balancing confidence with confidence in confidence in the management of data Google.”
This new report warns that “more in -depth integration inevitably puts legitimate concerns in the foreground for many users. The prospect of an AI having access, even if it is temporary, to very personal data in call logs, private messages and WhatsApp cats immediately increase red flags concerning individual confidentiality and overall security of data. “
It was always going to happen – it was clear from the first days of integration of Gemini into emails and messages and other applications, just as it is clear with the news that WhatsApp must do the same With messages from its own users.
As Futurism The said: “WhatsApp now offers summaries of AI of text sons for those who are too lazy to read their messages themselves … because what says” I care “to break a summary generated by the AI of the cat of the family group?
A balance must be found and the risk is that users do not yet know enough about the complex network of privacy policies to make these decisions.
