14.11.2025, Mountain View.
The scandal involving surveillance of users by Google once again confirmed that users of free online services pay for them with their own data, Rossa Primavera News Agency‘s IT Desk wrote.
On November 12, Bloomberg stated that a class-action lawsuit had been filed against Google. The corporation was accused of illegally collecting user data for its Gemini neural network.
The complaint states that previously, in services such as Gmail, Chat, and Meet, the option to connect Google’s neural network was disabled by default. However, in October, this feature was quietly enabled for all users.
The use of the neural network within these services allows Gemini to collect users’ personal data. Google did not inform users about such a significant change in settings.
In the capitalist world nothing is given for free. On the internet, this means that the user always pays for “free” services one way or another.
In the most harmless case, the user pays by viewing ads placed by service owners. But often advertising revenue isn’t enough, and the product becomes the user themselves — or more precisely, their data.
With the advent of neural networks, data has become an even more valuable commodity, as it serves as the training material that allows such systems to improve.
Therefore, corporations that own popular services will continue inventing new ways to obtain user data. As legal regulations erode, the option to refuse a service access to personal data will likely disappear.
Or this option will remain only formally, while in practice data collection will continue regardless of the user’s choice.
In any case, it is essential to understand that once your data enters the internet, it no longer belongs to you.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
