Google Photos may have shared your private videos with a stranger
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Strangers may have had access to your private videos.
Were your private videos leaked?
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The bad news is one of Google’s most popular features recently had what’s being described as a “technical issue” that may have put your privacy in serious jeopardy.
Here’s what happened: There’s a feature called Google Takeout that lets you see everything Google knows about you. It also lets you export a copy of the data in your Google Account to back up or use with a third-party service.
That’s where the glitch comes into play. This week, Google started alerting Takeout users about a problem that was recently discovered.
The alert reads, “We are writing to inform you of a technical issue that affected the Google ‘Download your data’ service for Google Photos between November 21, 2019, and November 25, 2019, when it was fixed.”
Users who requested a Google “Download your data” export during that timeframe were potentially impacted by the glitch. If so, videos stored in Google Photos may have been exported to “unrelated users.” That means someone you don’t know might have accessed your personal videos.
Here is a tweet sent by an impacted Google user who received the warning:
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