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Google saves your conversations with Gemini for years by default


In its privacy policy, Google reveals that it stores convos with its AI-powered Gemini apps for three years by default.

That’s the PSA (of sorts) today from Google, which in a new outlines the ways in which it collects data from users of its Gemini chatbot apps for the web, Android and iOS. But Google’s policy illustrates the challenges inherent in balancing privacy with developing GenAI models that feed on user data to self-improve. OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others offer GenAI products geared toward enterprises that explicitly don’t retain data for any length of time, whether for model training or any other purpose.

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