Does Google train on your data?
Google's policy differs by where you read it: the European text says your Gemini interactions train its models; the US text names only publicly available information. Neither states an opt-out.
No opt-out found in this policy
Graded on the plan most people are on. The other plans are in the matrix below.
"We use your interactions with AI models and technologies like Gemini Apps to develop, train, fine-tune, and improve these models to better handle your requests, and update their classifiers and filters including for safety, language understanding, and factuality."
- 1 Oct 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- Google Account (Consumer)
- eu
- Fetched from the company
- 9CC7E1D1…9C80
How we read it: The clause is from the policy as served to European readers. The same URL serves US readers a different document, so the capture cited pins the European text with Google's own country parameter (gl=GB); the plain URL is archived alongside and, fetched from the US, holds the US text. That text's only training language covers publicly available information ("to help train Google's AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Gemini Apps, and Cloud AI capabilities") and never mentions interactions-training — silence, not a denial. No control over AI training is named in either version; Web & App Activity is described for search and location history, not model training.
opt out, object to, right to object, legitimate interest, restrict, settings
What the document does offer
- "If European Union (EU) or United Kingdom (UK) data protection law applies ... You also have the right to object to the processing of your information" — the condition opens the paragraph; the objection right is granted in the sentence after it
- The legal-grounds table heads the training row with "When necessary for our legitimate interests and those of third parties, including to: Provide, maintain, and improve services to meet the needs of our users", and the example beneath it is "using information about your activity in our services, like your interactions with Gemini Apps, to train and improve machine learning models"
- pause and delete YouTube Search History and Watch History, in YouTube settings
- edit or delete your account, and your home and work addresses, in Google Account settings
- turn device location on or off in the device's settings app
Why none of it applies: This block said until 1 September 2026 that "legitimate interest" appeared once and nowhere near the training purpose. Wrong, and ours: it appears eight times as served, always as a legal-grounds header, which this site's extractor was dropping. The route does exist for the readers this EU text addresses — the training purpose sits under legitimate interests, the objection right a few paragraphs earlier. Its narrowness survives: the right needs EU or UK law to apply, so readers served the US text never reach it, and objecting means writing to Google rather than moving a setting.
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"applies solely to Service Data and does not apply to Customer Data or Partner Data."
- 1 Oct 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- Google Workspace & Cloud Platform
- global
- Fetched from the company
- F3AD3B8C…BF75
Why this is still UNCLEAR: The question is deferred twice and never answered. The consumer policy sends Workspace and Cloud readers to the Google Cloud Privacy Notice. That notice, captured 24 Aug 2026, says it "applies solely to Service Data and does not apply to Customer Data or Partner Data" — the very category a Workspace user's documents and a Cloud customer's uploads fall into — and points on again to the Cloud Data Processing Addendum. So a reader following the trail from the privacy policy arrives at a document that excludes them by name. UNCLEAR is the finding: not that Google trains on Workspace content, and not that it does not, but that two documents in a row decline to say.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- None offered
- Not stated
- 89 / 100
- Not stated
- Unknown
- Not established
- Not stated
- —
- —
- Not established
How to opt out of Google AI training
Plan by plan, from what Google's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
Google Account (Consumer)
No opt-out is stated in the policy on file for Google.
Google Workspace & Cloud Platform
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. The question is deferred twice and never answered. The consumer policy sends Workspace and Cloud readers to the Google Cloud Privacy Notice. That notice, captured 24 Aug 2026, says it "applies solely to Service Data and does not apply to Customer Data or Partner Data" — the very category a Workspace user's documents and a Cloud customer's uploads fall into — and points on again to the Cloud Data Processing Addendum. So a reader following the trail from the privacy policy arrives at a document that excludes them by name. UNCLEAR is the finding: not that Google trains on Workspace content, and not that it does not, but that two documents in a row decline to say.
What this policy has done since we started watching
39 changes detected since 1 Jan 2023. Each one is a diff between two archived copies, and each links to the passage that moved.
- Touched what's collected. Not yet reviewed by a human.
- Touched what's collected. Not yet reviewed by a human.
- Touched jurisdiction, retention, what's collected, sub-processors and plan tiers. Not yet reviewed by a human.
- Touched jurisdiction, retention, what's collected, sub-processors and plan tiers. Not yet reviewed by a human.
- Touched jurisdiction, retention, what's collected, sub-processors and plan tiers. Not yet reviewed by a human.
- Touched jurisdiction, retention, what's collected, sub-processors and plan tiers. Not yet reviewed by a human.
- Touched jurisdiction, retention, what's collected, sub-processors and plan tiers.
- Touched jurisdiction, retention, what's collected, sub-processors and plan tiers.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to Google about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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