Google Gemini updated its privacy notice on March 27, 2026 to describe how data from connected Google apps and imported data from other AI platforms is used to personalize your Gemini experience. The new language states that eligible users can connect certain Google apps to Gemini for personalized features, and that imported memory or chats from other AI platforms are saved in your Activity and used to improve services, including training generative AI models. This describes newly disclosed practices related to data from Connected Apps and cross-platform data imports, though the change does not appear to introduce fundamentally new permissions beyond what was previously authorized in the existing privacy notice.
The updated privacy notice now discloses that Gemini can use data from connected Google apps and imported memory or chats from other AI platforms to personalize your experience and to improve services, including training generative AI models. This data is treated similarly to other Gemini activity. You can manage or delete your imported activity anytime through the Activity controls.
The updated notice explicitly discloses that Gemini uses data from connected Google apps and imported data from other AI platforms for personalization and AI model training. This clarifies the scope of data processing and training data use, which has direct relevance to GDPR transparency obligations, CCPA consumer disclosures, and emerging AI transparency requirements. Organizations that process regulated data through Gemini should confirm this disclosed practice aligns with their vendor contracts and customer privacy commitments.
→ Review your Connected Apps settings in Gemini and disconnect any apps if you do not want their data used for personalization.
→ Check Gemini Activity settings to review, manage, or delete imported data from other AI platforms.
→ If you have opted into Personal Intelligence, verify which Google apps are connected and adjust permissions as needed.
→ Connected Google app data will continue to be used to personalize your Gemini experience as permitted under the updated terms.
→ Imported data from other AI platforms will be retained in your Activity and used for service improvement and AI training unless you delete it.
→ Without reviewing your Connected Apps settings, you may not be aware which Google services are sharing data with Gemini.
This is the 2nd significant Transparency Removal change Google Gemini has made since ConductAtlas began monitoring.
ConductAtlas has recorded 2 material changes to this document (since March 2026). An additional minor or cosmetic changes were excluded.
New explicit language stating eligible users can connect Google apps to Gemini for personalized features unavailable without connection.
New disclosure that imported memory and chats from other AI platforms are used to improve services including generative AI model training.
Reiterates that users can manage or delete imported activity anytime, providing a control mechanism.
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Google Gemini's privacy notice now explicitly describes two data practices: use of Connected Apps data for personalization of the Gemini experience, and handling of imported data from competing AI platforms. The disclosure states this imported data is used for service improvement including generative AI training. For organizations that handle Google Gemini data, this clarifies the data processing scope and AI training applicability. Jurisdictions with AI transparency requirements (EU AI Act, state-level AI disclosure laws) and data protection frameworks (GDPR, CCPA) may view this explicit disclosure as addressing transparency obligations, though the substantive data processing authorities likely existed under prior language. No new consumer consent appears to be required, suggesting these practices may have been previously authorized under broader terms.
GDPR (data processing lawfulness and transparency), CCPA (data sale/sharing disclosures), EU AI Act (transparency regarding AI training data), state AI transparency laws
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