A few weeks ago, I explicitly disabled it everywhere I could find within account.google.com and I’ve not used anything gemini since. Now I get this email and find it enabled on my devices.
By default Gemini has permissions to access everything on screen, view your contacts/messages, and can be used from the lockscreen…
I’m not all that surprised; but I’m still annoyed. Especially with the opt-out of data collection/access after it’s been given access to everything.
See that’s where we’re fucking up. If a company can install things on ”your” devices, it’s really their devices.
We don’t really own anything
These are pocket computer computers that turn into paperweights the moment our feudal lord Google decides to
Google “SafetyCore” says hello.