… Access is limited to US Google AI Ultra subscribers at $250/month, so I won't be trying it anytime soon. Google may bring it to cheaper tiers like $20 AI Pro — I'm still uneasy about giving AI deep access to my data. …
… You can focus on generating insights and applying your knowledge rather than spending time on tedious data management. Related Best Personal Knowledge Management tools for maximum privacy Is your PKM tool spying on you? …
… In a bid to improve Chrome for Android's privacy tools, Google is adding a new feature that lets you share a rough estimate of your location without revealing your exact location. However, you can still give precise data if the use case needs it. …
… Related 4 lightweight open-source tools that replaced all of my paid apps Free, fast, and fully capable Notesnook A beginner-friendly, privacy-focused notes solution While I use Jotty Page for many of my checklists and notes, I also wanted to create redundancy with a solution that I can access even… …
… The cloud leak Secure all of your data You might have a whole load of non-encrypted metadata that is accessible through your smart home devices, too. By using a tool like Wireshark, you can see that your privacy-first smart camera is actually sending unencrypted metadata to the cloud. …
… More privacy is just an accidental side-effect Even if you set out just decluttering your Drive storage to avoid paying for Google One, you'll likely shield plenty of information from the tech titan, but still retain a reasonable degree of access. …
… You can also go into your account settings and turn off personal results and hands-free microphone access. This reduces the amount of data Gemini tries to pull in and avoids the part of the setup process that most often causes the loop. …
… You'll have to spend hours doing that on the mobile app while swiping through data ranges. A dashboard like this gives you access to older data without any digging around. Moreover, all of this data can be exported to LLMs if you want AI to analyze your data for you and give you trends. …
… However, I got a little pause when I was about to upload it to NotebookLM; I had just watched some Reels on data privacy before this happened and couldn’t shake the nagging feeling of all my health data being out of my hands. …
… It doesn't even do network permissions, so local file metadata isn’t being silently cataloged for targeted advertising. Fossify also caters to power users with robust root access right off the bat, offering system directories /data, /system without installing sketchy third-party root explorer apps. …