Privacy & Data Governance

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How Gemini Code Assist handles your data across editions.

Data Handling by Edition

	Individuals	Standard	Enterprise
Data used for ML training	Yes (opt-out available)	No	No
VPC-SC support	No	Yes	Yes
Private Google Access	No	Yes	Yes
IP indemnification	No	Yes	Yes
Enterprise DPA	No	Yes	Yes

Source Citations

Gemini provides citation info when it directly quotes from open source code at length.

Standard chat: Citations shown when applicable
Agent mode: No citations (known limitation)

Opt Out of ML Training (Individuals)

VS Code: Chat pane > ... More > Privacy settings

IntelliJ: Click spark icon > Privacy settings OR Settings > Gemini

This opts you out of Google using your interaction data to improve ML models. Settings are stored at IDE level.

Telemetry (Crash Reports)

VS Code: Settings > Extensions > Gemini Code Assist > Telemetry section

IntelliJ: Settings > Gemini > Code Usage Statistics section

Exclude Code from AI Context

Create .aiexclude in your project root (same syntax as .gitignore):

# Sensitive files — never send to Gemini
.env
.env.*
secrets/
credentials.json
*.pem
*.key
*.p12
config/production.json

# Exclude large binary or generated files
dist/
build/
*.min.js

INFO

.gitignore patterns are also respected automatically — no need to duplicate them in .aiexclude.

Privacy & Data Governance ​

Data Handling by Edition ​

Source Citations ​

Opt Out of ML Training (Individuals) ​

Telemetry (Crash Reports) ​

Exclude Code from AI Context ​