PrivacyMedium
Gemini AI Allegedly Reads Google Drive Files Without Explicit User Consent
- Occurred
- Jul 16, 2024
- Published
- Jul 14, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Kevin Bankston, a privacy activist, claims that Google's Gemini AI scans private Google Drive PDFs without explicit user consent. Bankston reports that after using Gemini on one document, the AI continues to access similar files automatically. Google disputes these claims, stating that Gemini requires proactive user activation and operates within privacy-preserving settings.
Developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Gemini
Harmed parties
- Kevin Bankston
- Google users
- Google Drive users
- Privacy
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves unauthorized data access claims without explicit consent, fitting privacy category with medium severity due to dispute and lack of confirmed harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8