By Catherine Baab
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 15:15:00
Google is facing fresh backlash over privacy concerns — this time involving Gemini, its AI assistant, and new settings the company rolled out last month.
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed on Tuesday in federal court in San Jose, California and first reported by Bloomberg, accuses the company of unlawfully turning on Gemini across Gmail, Google Chat, and Meet, effectively allowing its AI to monitor and analyze users’ private messages and attachments.
The complaint alleges that Google activated Gemini by default in October of this year without alerting users or asking for consent. While Google provides an option to turn off the tool, the suit says such action requires digging through layers of privacy settings that most users never see.
“Entire recorded history” of users’ communications
In leaving Gemini set to “on,” Google allegedly gave the system access to “the entire recorded history” of users’ communications, potentially violating California’s Invasion of…
