Despite Google's long-standing love affair with April Fools' fakery, fifteen years ago today the internet giant was deadly serious when it launched what would become one of its biggest products: Gmail ...

In November 2025, a rumor circulated that Google's latest update had automatically opted in all users to allow its generative artificial intelligence (AI) program to train on private communications ...

Google denies charges that it's analyzing your private emails to train its AIs. A class action lawsuit accuses Google of privacy violations. You may still want to opt out of the features in question.

For Gmail users, there is an automatic opt-in that may allow Google access to your emailed data (think: your personal and ...

Google has built Gemini deeply into Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets, making it hard to fully switch off at a user level. While some smart features can be disabled, completely removing ...

Contrary to what several reports might have said in the past few days, Google does not read your emails in Gmail to train Gemini on the data in them. Google denied reports that email data is used to ...