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ipsum2 ◴[25 Jun 25 16:21 UTC] No.44379036[source]▶
If you use this, all of your code data will be sent to Google. From their terms:

https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/resources/p...

When you use Gemini Code Assist for individuals, Google collects your prompts, related code, generated output, code edits, related feature usage information, and your feedback to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine learning technologies.

To help with quality and improve our products (such as generative machine-learning models), human reviewers may read, annotate, and process the data collected above. We take steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. This includes disconnecting the data from your Google Account before reviewers see or annotate it, and storing those disconnected copies for up to 18 months. Please don't submit confidential information or any data you wouldn't want a reviewer to see or Google to use to improve our products, services, and machine-learning technologies.

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1. fhinkel ◴[25 Jun 25 22:37 UTC] No.44382418[source]▶
Hey all, This is a really great discussion, and you've raised some important points. We realize the privacy policies for the Gemini CLI were confusing depending on how you log in, and we appreciate you calling that out.

To clear everything up, we've put together a single doc that breaks down the Terms of Service and data policies for each account type, including an FAQ that covers the questions from this thread.

Here’s the link: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...

Thanks again for pushing for clarity on this!

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2. HenriNext ◴[25 Jun 25 22:55 UTC] No.44382548[source]▶
Thanks, one more clarification please. The heading of point #3 seems to mention Google Workspace: "3. Login with Google (for Workspace or Licensed Code Assist users)". But the text content only talks about Code Assist: "For users of Standard or Enterprise edition of Gemini Code Assist" ... Could you clarify whether point #3 applies with login via Google Workspace Business accounts?
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3. fhinkel ◴[25 Jun 25 23:21 UTC] No.44382723[source]▶
Yes it does.
4. ipsum2 ◴[25 Jun 25 23:26 UTC] No.44382749[source]▶
I think you did a good job CYA on this, but what people were really looking for was a way to opt-out of Google collecting code, similar to the opt-out process for the IDE is available.
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5. dcreater ◴[26 Jun 25 01:04 UTC] No.44383295[source]▶
Yeah how is opt out of data collection not an option? This is what they mean by don't be evil and Google is proving yet again that they truly are
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6. FL410 ◴[26 Jun 25 02:01 UTC] No.44383586[source]▶
I appreciate the effort here, but I’m still confused. Is my $250/mo “ultra” plan considered personal and still something you train on?
7. yuuluuu ◴[26 Jun 25 03:04 UTC] No.44383864[source]▶
Thanks for clarification!
8. fhinkel ◴[26 Jun 25 09:40 UTC] No.44385725{3}[source]▶
Usage statistics includes "your prompts and answers", see the last paragraph in the ToS. I have no idea why legal insists we write "statistics" rather than "data".
9. kiitos ◴[26 Jun 25 15:01 UTC] No.44388120[source]▶
Is there any way for a user using the "Login with Google ... for individuals" auth method (I guess auth method 1) -- to opt-out of, and prevent, their input prompts, and output responses, from being used as training data?

From an initial parse of your linked tos-privacy.md doc, it seems like the answer is "no" -- but that seems bonkers to me, so I hope I'm misreading or misunderstanding something!