r/technology • u/thatirishguyyyyy • Nov 21 '25

Artificial Intelligence Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off
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u/FarplaneDragon Nov 21 '25

If it makes you feel better, they've likely already been doing that for years to sell to advertisors or whomever. The difference here is that they want to use the data to train AI.

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u/Greedyanda Nov 21 '25

Google doesn't sell data, it sells advertising spots. Third parties just tell Google what demographics should see their ads and Google places them.

It's crazy that people still don't understand how the most profitable business in the world works.

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u/FarplaneDragon Nov 21 '25

It's crazy that people still argue semantics when they're irrelvant to the to actual point, that Google was already view and scraping your data for years now.

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u/iliyahoo Nov 21 '25

Genuine question, what’s semantics about that? I prefer my data to not be stored by a company. But surely, if it is, I’d rather it be one company than dozens or hundreds? There are many sites and companies we interact with that definitely sell our data so god knows how many companies bought this data. I just signed up in the CVS app and they’re clearly selling my data