If you’re on a long drive, it doesn’t take long to realize just how much your car’s tech feels less like a helper and more like a surveillance tool. For me, it happened during a routine morning commute. I was using Android Auto, which has a relatively new UI, and Gemini flawlessly handled a flood of texts, gave me a few routing shortcuts, and waited patiently for my next voice command. But as I sat at a red light, a thought hit me: How much of this ambient cabin noise is Gemini actively processing, and where is that data going?
