This older 2025 thread is a relevant precedent for my case.
It shows that concerns about Google AI Studio’s data handling were already raised by independent users long before my documentation. In that discussion, a non‑Google user (Michael_Waring) cited Google’s own Gemini API Additional Terms, confirming that data submitted through Google AI Studio and unpaid Gemini API usage is used by Google to provide, improve, and develop its products and machine‑learning technologies.
This matters because it demonstrates that Google’s systems have a history of processing user‑submitted content, including prompts, without guaranteeing confidentiality. The thread is not written by Google staff, which makes it an independent corroborating source.
In my case, Google’s AI Overview went further: it accessed, processed, summarized, and publicly presented my forum posts — including deleted data — while Google ignored my DSARs and official correspondence. The 2025 thread therefore serves as a contextual foundation showing that Google’s data‑processing behavior is systemic, not accidental, and aligns with the unauthorized processing I have now documented with verifiable HTML captures, archived pages, and exported forum data.
https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/google-ai-studio-is-unsafe-for-private-data/78277/7
