Just pulled up my tax return in @Google Docs--and unbidden, Gemini summarized it. So...Gemini is automatically ingesting even the private docs I open in Google Docs? WTF, guys. I didn't ask for this. Now I have to go find new settings I was never told about to turn this crap off. @Google Gemini is either hallucinating or this setting is so buried that I can't find it in either my @Google account or Drive settings or Gemini Privacy Hub after searching for 15 minutes. (Pardon my french in the screenshot but felt like expressing anger to the machine...)

Ford's CEO just said on NPR that the future of profitability for the company is all the data from its 100 million vehicles (and the people in them) they'll be able to monetize. Capitalism & surveillance capitalism are becoming increasingly indistinguishable (and frightening). If you're wondering, the show was Freakonomics, and this story has some of the key transcript quotes. freep.com/story/money/ca…

Want to stop info of yours from going out over Facebook's API? Then you'll need disable "Platform". (Go to privacy settings, and press "edit" for "apps, websites and plugins"). Go ahead and do it. I mean, who uses FB apps anyway? This ain't 2009. If for some reason you don't want to do that, at least edit "Apps Others Use" and uncheck all the categories of data there. (Note that data Facebook considers "public"--like name, gender, and friends list--will still be shared over API if you don't disable Platform.)