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NotebookLM (Google) policy evolution

Before/after stance changes across captured policy versions, with exact citations. If no before/after delta is available yet, AIRIN shows the latest citation-backed stance events instead.

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Worsened
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worsenedhigh materialitytrainingAug 7, 2026 to Aug 7, 2026

model training worsened from low/no training claim to high/training permitted.

Stance key: model training. AIRIN emits this only when before and after stance events both carry citations.

Before · no training claim
low
Gemini Notebook prioritizes privacy and security. The sources you upload stay private unless you choose to share a Notebook. Gemini Notebook never trains models on your uploaded data.
Privacy Policy › “Expand all”
Open citation
After · training permitted
high
Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms
Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”
Open citation
improvedhigh materialitytrainingJul 31, 2026 to Aug 7, 2026

model training improved from high/training permitted to low/no training claim.

Stance key: model training. AIRIN emits this only when before and after stance events both carry citations.

Before · training permitted
high
Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms
Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”
Open citation
After · no training claim
low
Gemini Notebook prioritizes privacy and security. The sources you upload stay private unless you choose to share a Notebook. Gemini Notebook never trains models on your uploaded data.
Privacy Policy › “Expand all”
Open citation
worsenedhigh materialitytrainingJul 20, 2026 to Jul 31, 2026

model training worsened from low/no training claim to high/training permitted.

Stance key: model training. AIRIN emits this only when before and after stance events both carry citations.

Before · no training claim
low
Gemini Notebook prioritizes privacy and security. The sources you upload stay private unless you choose to share a Notebook. Gemini Notebook never trains models on your uploaded data.
Privacy Policy › “Expand all”
Open citation
After · training permitted
high
Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms
Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”
Open citation
improvedhigh materialitytrainingJul 8, 2026 to Jul 20, 2026

model training improved from high/training permitted to low/no training claim.

Stance key: model training. AIRIN emits this only when before and after stance events both carry citations.

Before · training permitted
high
Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms
Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”
Open citation
After · no training claim
low
Gemini Notebook prioritizes privacy and security. The sources you upload stay private unless you choose to share a Notebook. Gemini Notebook never trains models on your uploaded data.
Privacy Policy › “Expand all”
Open citation
worsenedhigh materialitytrainingJun 17, 2026 to Jul 8, 2026

model training worsened from low/no training claim to high/training permitted.

Stance key: model training. AIRIN emits this only when before and after stance events both carry citations.

Before · no training claim
low
NotebookLM is part of Workspace which means it is backed by best-in-class security . As part of Google’s commitment to data privacy, NotebookLM does not train models on uploaded Workspace user data. Sources stay private unless you choose to share a notebook.
Privacy Policy › “Security measures in NotebookLM”
Open citation
After · training permitted
high
Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms
Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”
Open citation

Generated from live stance events. Informational only, not legal advice.

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