Google May Have Shared Your Videos With Strangers

If you used Google Takeout to download an archive of your Google Photos content, there's a chance that someone else may have ended up with your videos. From a report: The company has admitted that for a few days in November last year, "some videos in Google Photos were exported to unrelated users' archives." This means that not only could your videos have ended up on a stranger's computer, but also that you may have received random videos belonging to someone else. Google is not making much of the "technical issue" which it says has now been resolved. But the company apologizes for the "inconvenience" that may have been caused for people downloading their Google Photos archive between November 21 and 25, 2019.

assumption

[e**(i pi)-1]

maybe it is good to assume that if something is stored away to a third party, especially if it is a free service that there is a considerable risk that it becomes pubic at some point, a technical glitch is only one possibility.

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[Gorkamecha]

I pay for my google storage - upgraded my storage years ago - at what pricing threshold should I expect this this to to be considered a "breach" vs a "glitch"?

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[DontBeAMoran]

[...] at what pricing threshold should I expect this this to to be considered a "breach" vs a "glitch"?

Yes.

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[account_deleted]

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It's okay if google sees me nude

[goombah99]

I just don't want some third party so see me nude.

the assumption should be that Google itself is evil. No need to consider a data leak. Google itself is big brother.

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[tlhIngan]

maybe it is good to assume that if something is stored away to a third party, especially if it is a free service that there is a considerable risk that it becomes pubic at some point, a technical glitch is only one possibility.

No, it's safest to assume that anything you put online can be viewed by anyone and everyone.

This was true 40+ years ago, and it's still true today. Assuming someone will keep something locked up from everyone else is like telling someone a secret. They can promise all they want, but t

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[slick7]

risk that it becomes pubic

When you assume, you make an ass of u and your spell checker understanding the context of your message.

Shared my videos with strangers?

[Headw1nd]

How unfortunate for them.

So Google Photos is Youtube

[nospam007]

We thought so.

Complex idea, this is not

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

"This means that not only could your videos have ended up on a stranger's computer, but also that you may have received random videos belonging to someone else."

Redundant sentence is redundant.

Always share with strangers

[DogDude]

People seem to forget that companies are made up of people. If you save your information on somebody else's computers, whoever owns those computers has access to your stuff. There are literally thousands of people at Google that have full and complete access to your email, your photos, and everything else you "share" with Google. Strangers can (and do) go through all of your shit. Those strangers work at Google.

When is GDrive security model coming to Photos?

[HockeyPuck]

If you want to share photos with people you create a link/album and share it with the recipient. Let's say you want to share it with 10 people. One link/album and share it with the group of people.

If you want to remove one person, you have to unshare the photo/album (thus deleting the URL you emailed out) and create a new share, thereby creating new URL.

Then notify the people that you shared it with...

Why can't we have the simple RBAC model in gDrive...

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[hey!]

Ah, but Google is trying to kill the URL. If they succeed, then the only way to information will be through an app or service.

bad timing

[renegade600]

and now google wants you to pay 8 bucks a month to send 10 random printed pictures to you. wonder if they will be sent to the wrong address too?

Good. I'm sick of getting arrested

[sabbede]

just for showing off my genitalia to strangers on the street. I'm trying to provide a public service over here!

If google is helping spread the good news, then I thank them.

This is very sad.

[MadMaverick9]

Only 16 comments. Very sad!

This is the same kind of complacency as in 2013.

Big companies / governments do bad things. And then ... Nothing.

Scandalous bug causing privacy and security nightmare for Google [youtube.com]

Google kills URL [slashdot.org]

Since people have no clue anymore about basic internet terminology, bad things are happening. And this lack of knowledge makes it very easy for bad actors to do their thing.