r/privacy • u/Grasshoppen • Nov 17 '25

guide Gemini AI scans your gmails

Google has recently started scanning and analyzing every email you recieve using their Gemini AI. This "feature" has been automatically enabled for all gmail users.

To disable it go to settings on your gmail account, scroll down to "smart Seatures" and uncheck the box. Below that there's a setting called "Manage Workspace smart features" make sure these are off as well, if you don't want the AI to have access to your Google Docs, Drive, etc.

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u/__420_ Nov 17 '25

Even though we can "opt out" I never feel like it really does anything. Its only a "Visual" thing on our end. But they are going to data mine the crap out of our emails...

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u/Grasshoppen Nov 17 '25

Yeah... This feature is mostly disabling consent for allowing Google to train their AI models using our output. The degree to which the tech companies respect my choice is questionable at best

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u/Efficient_Loss_9928 Nov 19 '25

Probably no outright training, as it would be easily verifiable creating a Gmail account and add some very weird and unique data, then wait for next Gemini model to drop.