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🚨Google GEMS Privacy Warning

Privacy Warning for Entrepreneurs Using Google’s New Super Gems (Opal)

If you’re excited about Google’s new “Super Gems” and Opal (and I for one am), hit the brakes for a second - especially if you run a business or handle client data.

Here’s what most people are missing:

Opal is not covered by the Gemini Apps privacy protections you may think you’re relying on.

Google explicitly states that Opal is “not a part of Gemini Apps,” that your Opal data “does not appear in your Gemini Apps Activity,” and that it is not controlled by Gemini’s Workspace-connected app settings. The dedicated Gemini Apps Privacy Notice does not apply to Opal; instead, your Opal data is governed only by the general Google Privacy Policy.[1][2][3]

For entrepreneurs, that means all the safer defaults and admin controls you might be counting on inside Workspace/Gemini do not protect what you do inside Opal.

Opal asks for extremely broad access to your Google Drive.

When you accept, you’re giving Opal permission to “see and download all your Google Drive files” and to “create, edit, and delete” the specific files you use with the experience. Full-Drive scope like this typically allows an app to read every document, sheet, and file in your Drive, including items shared with you by others.[4][5][1]

If your main Google account contains client docs, strategy decks, financials, SOPs, or anything sensitive, you’re effectively opening the door for this experimental system to see all of it.

Anyone with access to certain Opal-powered apps can access the saved data in those apps.

Google’s own documentation explains that for user-created “Canvas” style mini-apps, the app creator can see the data you input and can store it where they choose (for example, in Firebase or other storage), and that “anyone with the public link can also view and edit data saved with the app.”[2][6]

So if you’re using a public or shared Opal app to process client info, sales data, or internal workflows, understand this:

- The app creator can see your data.

- The data can be stored outside your Drive.

- Anyone with the public link can potentially access or modify that data.[6][2]

That’s a huge exposure risk for entrepreneurs and agencies.

Your Opal data can be used under the broad terms of the standard Google Privacy Policy.

Because Opal falls under the general Google Privacy Policy, Google may process your data to improve services, develop new features, and share it with “affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons” who process data on their behalf. There is no separate, tighter AI-specific privacy regime here like you might expect from enterprise-grade tools.[3][2]

As an entrepreneur, that’s not the level of isolation or control you want around proprietary workflows, prompts, and client information.

Bottom line: this is an experiment, not an enterprise tool.

Google labels Opal as a “Google Labs experiment,” separate from Gemini Apps. It is not governed by Workspace admin controls, not covered by the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice, and uses broad Drive access plus a mini-app model where third-party creators and anyone with a link may see stored data.[1][2][3][4][6]

From an entrepreneurial/privacy standpoint, that’s a long way from “adequate protections.”

Practical recommendations:

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- Do not run client data, financials, health information, or proprietary processes through Opal right now.

- If you want to tinker, do it with a separate Google account and only with synthetic or non-sensitive data.

- Treat everything you put into an Opal app as potentially visible to the app creator and anyone who gets or guesses a public link.[2][6]

Google’s innovation pace is impressive, but the privacy posture on Super Gems/Opal is not where it needs to be for serious entrepreneurs who care about protecting their business, their IP, and their clients.

[1](https://blog.google/.../mini-apps-opal-gemini-app.../

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[2](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16802014

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[3](https://labs.google/fx/privacy

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[4](https://www.docontrol.io/.../google-drive-access-permissions

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[5](https://www.metomic.io/.../guide-to-google-drive-sharing ...

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[6](https://www.androidcentral.com/.../gemini-can-now-build ...

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