What constitutes "Sharing with a third party" though? Using a 3rd party email service like outlook or gmail? Using a third party docs service like google docs?

It doesn't seem right that google docs would be privileged, but if you use the fancy spellcheck button, it no longer is.

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shimman 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The onus is on the companies to make this clear, if they aren't willing to tell users the dangers of using their own tools that kinda tells you everything you need to know (they don't care about their customers, only $$$).

Be upset at Google for not taking privacy seriously, they never have and never will.

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jeffbee 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right, exactly. It is also too much to expect that if a user enabled the "personalization" button in the Gemini app, for unrelated reasons, they now can't expect to compose a privileged email to their counsel. It's a minefield.

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lokar 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, at Google people get legal advice from in house lawyers via Gmail. Are they not sharing that with at least some of the Gmail team (who could read the email)?

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jeffbee 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Gmail users (correctly and reasonably) do not expect the "gmail team" to read their emails, except using glass-breaking incident response privileges that leave audit trails and trigger review. Users expect that email is private. Anyway, both Google's privacy policy and American jurisprudence segregate things like emails, voice calls, and video calls into a separate "communications" category, while Google's privacy policy treats Google Docs as "other content you create", even though the difference seems immaterial if you know how these systems work.

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kevin_thibedeau 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Google originally declared that they read all emails. That was semi-changed with the Workspace rollout but there is nothing preventing them from reverting to the old policy. They already do it anyway for reminders extracted from email.

	▲	lokar 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		To me, "read" means by a human. Humans read, computers process.
	▲	jeffbee 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No normal person believes that systems delivering and classifying messages amounts to "gmail team reads my emails".