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Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators

What HN thinks

Google Drive users discover their files have a reading group, and the self-hosting crowd finally gets to say "told you so."

Predictable betrayal of user trust
Many see this as the expected result of trusting a data company, made worse by confusing consent popups and poorly paid contractor reviewers.
Self-host your data instead
A large subthread swaps setups for leaving Google: Immich, Nextcloud, encrypted offsite backups, and hybrid email where you receive mail yourself but relay sending through a provider.
Scope is narrower than headlines
Some point out this only affects consumer Gemini with Connected Apps enabled, not Workspace, but call it a bad product decision because it will spook paying enterprise customers.

Consensus: Most commenters think sending personal Drive and email data to human reviewers is a serious breach of trust. They also agree it is another sign that users should move off Google services.

Recommended in the comments

Immich (tool): Several commenters praised it as an excellent replacement for Google Photos.
Nextcloud (tool): Recommended as a Google Drive replacement, ideally the AIO edition placed behind Tailscale for security.
Tailscale (service): Used to reach self-hosted services without exposing them to the public internet.
Restic (tool): Used with Rclone to keep encrypted offsite backups that the cloud provider cannot read.
Purelymail (service): Suggested as an alternative to the pain of self-hosting email.
Filestash ↗ (tool): Its author offered it as a self-hosted Dropbox alternative.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 3 days ago.

Points: 660
Comments: 139
Best rank: #3
Posted: 2026-11-09 by gf74918
Category: Security

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