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Google accidentally sent users’ private videos to random strangers

February 4, 2020

Via: TechRadar

Google has confirmed that some people using its Takeout service to download a copy of their data last year had content from their Google Photos account shared with complete strangers by accident.

As 9to5Google reports, the ‘technical issue’ happened from November 21to 25 2019, but Google is only now alerting potentially affected users by email.

The problem involved videos (not still pictures), which were accidentally exported to other users’ archives if they happened to be backing up their content at the same time as you.

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