By Victor Tangermann
Publication Date: 2025-11-24 14:30:00
Google has denied that it quietly searched users’ personal Gmail accounts to train its AI models on their emails and attachments.
Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes caused an uproar last week when it warned in a blog post that the tech giant was rolling out features that would give its AI models access to private messages and files.
However, Malwarebytes later added a huge correction to the story, writing that “the way Google has recently rewritten and surfaced (the features) has led many people (including us) to believe that Gmail content could be used to train Google’s AI models and that users would have automatically opted in to it.”
But after “taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reports,” they admitted “that doesn’t appear to be the case.”
A Google spokesperson also called the claim “misleading” and said the company “has not changed anyone’s settings.”
“Gmail Smart Features have been around for many years and we leverage your…
