{"id":128472,"date":"2020-02-05T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=128472"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:00:32","slug":"google-oops-we-may-have-sent-your-private-google-photos-videos-to-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=128472","title":{"rendered":"Google: Oops, we may have sent your private Google Photos videos to strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\">\n<p>Well, this is awkward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google has recently notified Google Photos users that due to a &#8220;technical issue,&#8221; in Google Photos, some users&#8217; private videos were &#8220;incorrectly exported to unrelated users&#8217; archives,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2020\/02\/03\/google-photos-video-strangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">9to5Google<\/a> reported Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The technical glitch happened on Nov. 21, 2019, and was fixed four days later, on Nov. 25, and it apparently only affected users who used Google Takeout to request a &#8220;Download your data&#8221; export, which included content stored in Google Photos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the flipside, users who downloaded their data now possibly have someone else&#8217;s videos in their archive (which, by the way, may be incomplete).\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5511153269\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The number of users who used Google Takeout to download their data in that five-day period is relatively small; Google told 9to5Google that only 0.01 percent of Photos users attempting Takeouts were affected. Still, with Google Photos being near omnipresent on Android phones \u2014 Google <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2019\/07\/24\/google-photos-billion-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> it had over a billion users last July \u2014 even that number isn&#8217;t negligible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-also\">\n<p class=\"see-also-link\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/tech\/8425\/pixel-4-gets-updated-with-better-video-calls-ever-improving-face-unlock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixel 4 gets updated with better video calls, ever-improving face unlock<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Google says the issue is fixed and that it &#8220;conducted an in-depth analysis to help prevent this from ever happening again.&#8221; Affected users were notified of the glitch, together with an apology from Google, and a suggestion to &#8220;perform another export of your content and delete your prior export at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"5\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 5 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9258826580\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/tech\/8992\/google-oops-we-may-have-sent-your-private-google-photos-videos-to-strangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 3 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2884989920\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Well, this is awkward.\u00a0 Google has recently notified Google Photos users that due to a &#8220;technical issue,&#8221; in Google Photos, some users&#8217; private videos were &#8220;incorrectly exported to unrelated users&#8217; archives,&#8221; 9to5Google reported Monday.\u00a0 The technical glitch happened on Nov. 21, 2019, and was fixed four days later, on Nov. 25, and it apparently &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128474,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128472\/revisions\/128474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}