Google has sent emails to Android users warning that Gemini can view and access apps even if Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. In other words, it can access your text messages, WhatsApp history, and Utilities without explicit permission.
While Google has mentioned that users can turn this off per each app’s settings, it is not clear how they can do so in the email.
Are you frustrated by this level of settings fatigue? Google is using the burden of constant configuration to make it harder for folks to disable these horrible data collection settings.
There is Nitrokey if you want it preinstalled on a Pixel 8!
To be honest, my first point was about the anti-features on stock android. Graphene OS itself is quite straight forward and eliminates the hard part of degoogling manually
Update: A previous version of this story noted how these changes might be a privacy concern. Now that we have a better understanding of how they will work, largely thanks to some digging done by 9to5Google, we’ve updated the article to reflect that it’s actually quite the contrary — these changes should provide better access to Gemini features for users who don’t want to share their Gemini Apps Activity with Google.
