The Android Version of the Apple AI Privacy Video You Asked For
The short version: Mading Thok's walkthrough on killing default Android/Gemini data logging is a good personal privacy habit, but it won't touch the license plate cameras logging your car's movements on public roads.
Our Take
Credit to Mading Thok for the plain-language Android follow-up, walking folks through Google's myactivity.google.com settings and the Gemini app's activity log so your phone stops quietly saving search media and AI chat history by default. These are exactly the kind of two-minute fixes most people never think to make, and we're glad creators are putting them in front of a wide audience.
But it's worth being honest about what this does and doesn't solve. Turning off Gemini logging keeps Google from building a deeper profile of your prompts and searches. It does nothing about the dashboard-high cameras parked at intersections and neighborhood entrances that photograph your plate, your car, and often your face every time you drive past, then feed that into a searchable, shareable database for police and private networks. That's a separate surveillance layer, bolted onto public infrastructure, and you can't opt out of it from a settings menu.
Phone hygiene and fighting ALPR networks are both part of the same fight: deciding how much of your daily life gets logged without your say-so. If you want to see what's already watching your street, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Mading Thok, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.