Tech coverage of Google's Gemini controversy centered on denying AI training claims, while largely ignoring the Thele v. Google LLC lawsuit filed on November 11, 2025.

The complaint alleges: “[O]n or about October 10, 2025, Google secretly turned on Gemini for all its users’ Gmail, Chat, and Meet accounts, enabling AI to track its users’ private communications contained in those platforms without the users’ knowledge or consent. As of the date of this filing, Google continues to track these private communications with Gemini by default, requiring users to affirmatively find this data privacy setting and shut it off, despite never ‘agreeing’ to such AI tracking in the first place.”

Google has denied the training allegations but has remained silent on the October 10 claims.

https://www.classaction.org/media/thele-v-google-complaint_2.pdf

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