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📣 exabrial

Google forcibly enabled Gemini in our Corp Org. How to disable?


Google is playing strong arm tactics trying to get ahead of their competition. Our users logged in yesterday to see Gemini enabled in Gmail.

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.


  👤 wylie39 Accepted Answer ✓
I am in a similar boat, from what I can tell you can disable the Gemini app here[1] but if you want to disable it in Gmail and Drive you need to have an enterprise plan then you can disable it here [2]

[1] https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/47208553126 [2] https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/793154499678


👤 gtirloni
> our corporate information cannot be submitted externally.

Isn't your corporate information already submitted externally if you're using Google Workspace?


👤 hoppyhoppy2
Does goog not offer support for their corporate customers, who could answer such questions?

👤 gerash
I'm not sure what this post even means. You either trust the provider or not. you are already uploading your corporate content via Drive, Gmail, Calendar, etc. but suddenly another service is a security and privacy risk?

MS office has taken the same route (in fact Goog simply copied their strategy of including copilot)

So you might want to look for a totally different provider


👤 dboreham
Don't use Google for corporate email.

👤 Hizonner
> 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.

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.


👤 codegeek
This is a really shitty move by Google. Not happy at all. I don't want to use Gemini or any other AI crap they throw at us. Specially that we had a contract and they are increasing the price during the contract without us having any say. Google has really lost the "Don't do evil" mantra.

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.


👤 bushbaba
Best way is to take your money elsewhere.

👤 fldskfjdslkfj
Why is it an issue?

👤 xnx
Get upset about whatever you want, but my concern about this feature being "forcibly enabled" is about the same as my concern about spellcheck.