News Corp assures staff their data is secure despite Google AI opt-out issues
News Corp is among the largest enterprise users of Google Workspace to face issues with Google Gemini’s rollout, after an "omission" thwarted its attempt to opt out.
News Corp has assured staff that their emails and contacts remain secure in an internal memo that took aim at Google for omitting key information that thwarted News Corp’s attempt to opt out of the search giant’s artificial intelligence tool, Gemini.
The memo puts News Corp — owner of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, Harper Collins, The Sun, The Times of London, and other assets — among the largest known enterprise users of Google’s Workspace product, a competitor to Microsoft’s Office, to suffer issues with the search giant's rollout of Gemini this month.
David Kline, News Corp’s chief technology officer, told staff in a memo on Friday that the company had attempted to opt out of Gemini but was unsuccessful due to what he described as an “omission” by the Alphabet-owned company.
Kline told News Corp’s 23,900 global employees, many of them journalists, that their data, including emails and contacts, had not been compromised and that Google Workspace remained safe to use.
