Despite what Google's literature says about being safe and private, they have a history of retroactively opting people into features and our corporate information cannot be submitted externally.
We cannot find controls in the admin console to disable. Has anyone else figured out how to disable Gemini integration with corporate Gmail?
This surprises me, because Google has been litigated against successfully in the past about forcing users into their products in the past.
[1] https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/47208553126 [2] https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/793154499678
"Pay us more money, or be forced into using our feature" is a new sales tactic.
Isn't your corporate information already submitted externally if you're using Google Workspace?
For example in the US, a court could compel any external vendor we outsource our data to for operational, processing or storage purposes to access that data for any use it deems necessary. This was the expectation of any commercial business relationship across the country.
Gmail broke this with ad data, but the data was meta-data - information about information, like ad groups and categories relevant to your org.
Now publicly published content is being ingested and used to train models, at this stage I would assume if you share Docs publicly that would be in scope.
Proton has a good article explaining what is and isn’t ingested, and what they have the right to use: https://proton.me/blog/google-docs-ai-scraping
Edit, see above, the answer is to pay them more money apparently.
The problem is that once you are heavily tied into the Workspace ecosystem (Email, Google Drive, Google Meet etc), it is tough to change and move. Possible Yes. But the idea of moving decades of email and data is just horrifying.
Wait, what? Anything you do in any Google app is "externally". That's what the cloud is.
You're willing to put data in Google's hands, and have Google process data in way X, but you don't want Google to process those data in way Y, which has pretty much identical security and privacy properties?
Anyhow, the solution here is not to use Google services. You shouldn't be doing that anyhow.