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Re:Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscrib... by alberto467 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:05PM (#50368493)
Well for us Europeans, GDPR explicitly allows them to store pretty much anything if somebody can claim it’s for safety.

It’s literally just complicating things and providing zero reassurance to us AI customers.

Re:Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscrib... by tveyben on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:46PM (#50371264)
For safety - hmm new for me (European), please elaborate.
Re:Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscrib... by manmal on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:30PM (#50372908)
You don’t need user consent to retain data that’s arguably needed to provide the service itself. I guess, safety falls into that category. Training on that data is probably a grey area, if they can guarantee it won’t contain PII. They have stolen all the internet, so I wouldn’t bet highly on their restraint.
Re:Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscrib... by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:48AM (#50377631)
It's very easy to prove that training is not necessary to provide the service, because whenever you're using a model it's static and the training only maybe goes into new models.
Re:Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscrib... by zombot on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:32AM (#50388577)
It doesn't say for whose safety. It's certainly not yours.
Re:Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscrib... by petre on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:03AM (#50413472)
For safety = for the Stasi equivalent.