By PJ Randhawa
Publication Date: 2026-01-06 22:28:00
The world’s largest email platform may be using AI to access and exploit your private data, according to a class action lawsuit.
That lawsuit was filed against Google in recent days, and NBC 5 Responds is sharing steps that Gmail users can take to opt out of the program.
Gmail is by far the biggest email platform in the world, with more than a billion users worldwide. But since November, there have been complaints and warnings from security experts alleging that the tech giant is feeding users private messages and attachments to its AI system for training. And while the company says that’s not the case, this new lawsuit claims it hasn’t been transparent about how it’s using the data of customers.
A class action lawsuit accuses Google of “secretly” turning on Gemini to “access and exploit the entire recorded history of its users’ private communications, including literally every email and attachment sent and received in their Gmail accounts”….
