Google bug accidentally shares users' private videos with strangers

In this day and age of privacy concerns, Google just committed a major faux pas. Between November 21st and November 25th of last year, the "Download your data" service for the Google Photos app suffered a major issue. Those who asked Google to export and download pictures and videos from the Photos app might have been affected by Google's "my bad." Because of a bug, the company accidentally sent some videos to archives unrelated to the person who hosted the video in the Google Photos app. In other words, Google was accidentally disseminating users' videos to perfect strangers.

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Google bug accidentally shares users' private videos with strangers Google bug accidentally shares users' private videos with strangers Reviewed by Contributer on February 04, 2020 Rating: 5

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