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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no (www.laptopmag.com)

submitted 6 days ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 5 days ago

Gemini now has a second set of toggles buried in its settings menu. You can go to Profile → Apps inside the Gemini app and manually disable access to Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, or Utilities. But these are turned on by default, even if you’ve disabled tracking in the past.

So I just went to the app in my neighbor's phone, and it asked me to switch. I said no, and it won't let me do anything else. So will this need to be done next week?

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