Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You must host your own data if you don’t want a third party going through it.

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  • InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or encrypt it before uploading

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  • praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes it’s true. It’s also true that Google should try to be more trustworthy so that normal people can use without getting their data stolen.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, you can encryot it. I use cryptomator

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And with stuff like Anything LLM you can self host an entirety local multimodal agent in a handful of clicks.

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• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “The cloud” continues to be someone else’s computer. If you put your data up there, it’s no longer your data.

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  • Cyyy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    except if you put it in a password encrypted archive beforehand. because then nobody has access to it.

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    • tb_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ya think?

      Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware arstechnica.com/…/microsoft-is-scanning-the-insid…

      There are probably more secure methods than a password protected zip file, but just so you know.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For Bankston, the issue seems localized to Google Drive, and only happens after pressing the Gemini button on at least one document.

  Turns out, when you tell it to look at your document, it looks at your document. Who could possibly have known?!**

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  • SteveJobs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally the next sentence:

    The matching document type (in this case, PDF) will subsequently automatically trigger Google Gemini for all future files of the same type opened within Google Drive.

    So documents you didn’t tell it to look at.

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    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also sounds like you can’t turn it back off, once it turns itself on.

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• LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about stop using Google’s shit…problem solved.

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• cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Switch to MEGA already

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  no way to turn it off they said yet you can literally go into settings -> app extensions -> uncheck google workspace…

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