Google May Have Shared Your Private Videos With Strangers

Google announced this week that its data backup service, Google Takeout, experienced a technical issue that resulted in the leaking of thousands of private user videos.

According to a report by 9 to 5 Google, users that participated in the Takeout data backup program may have had their private videos leaked to other users. The service, which allows users to backup all of the data they are storing with the Internet giant, was established in 2011. This week, users on the service received a notification from the company that their private videos may have been shared with other users.

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“Unfortunately, during this time, some videos in Google Photos were incorrectly exported to unrelated users’ archives,” the Silicon Valley titan wrote in an email to affected users. “One or more videos in your Google Photos account was affected by this issue.” (Read more from “Google May Have Shared Your Private Videos With Strangers” HERE)

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