Oh look. A privacy breach where identifiable people experienced direct damage: their videos sent to strangers.
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) February 4, 2020
And yet, unlike the supposed Jumpshot "scandal" last week, no one in my feed will be up in arms, nor will 200+ ppl lose their jobs as a resulthttps://t.co/WauXRPkJe8
dude this is terrible: Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers https://t.co/HnkXQAssUe via @verge
— Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs) February 4, 2020
I am really curious about how it was technically possible that private videos showed up in other people's archives. Takeout lets you bulk-export all your data from Google and it's weird to me that one file format would 'escape' like this https://t.co/IFeyXmwKCC
— kate conger (@kateconger) February 4, 2020
guess this didn't make it into the super bowl commercial https://t.co/Z6CAQLunJP
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) February 4, 2020
"Google’s nonchalant email alerting users doesn’t provide any details on how many people were affected, nor the amount of individual videos that were distributed incorrectly per account," reports @tomwarren in @verge https://t.co/mVwVhCKzAG
— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) February 4, 2020
End-to-end encryption doesn't just improve end user privacy.
— Userbase (@UserbaseHQ) February 4, 2020
It also helps you radically minimize the chance that something like this could happen to your web app:https://t.co/wPZJKdU5Y5
Still think that dumb Google superbowl ad is great? The company sent private videos stored in Google Photos to strangers. https://t.co/h2DIvseyFs
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 4, 2020
Google has revealed it accidentally sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers. The mishap happened for 5 days due to a technical issue with Google’s Takeout service. Yikes. Details here: https://t.co/DHxSBXq0PL pic.twitter.com/jX6f2pF4Gv
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) February 4, 2020
Unlocked the PhotoRoulette feature https://t.co/ZH1HTfsC09
— !FALSE ? (@mahemoff) February 4, 2020
[GooG] accidentally sent some users' private videos to strangers
— Steven Lundgren (@love4thegameAK) February 4, 2020
People who used [GooG] Takeout between November 21 and November 25 may have received videos that were posted by strangers
H/T @HYVEE7 ? https://t.co/0ZvxTwZPA7
ANOTHER GOOGLE ISSUE -
— HYVE (@HYVEE7) February 4, 2020
Big tech is in trouble.
Private videos to strangers “accidentally” #QAnon https://t.co/MIhoiNmcti
SHAME on @Google!!! #dataleak #informationsecurity
— Geoff Krajeski (@GeoffKrajeski) February 4, 2020
Google accidentally sent some users' private videos to strangers https://t.co/iU8n2kT1jA
Google says it accidentally sent some users' private videos to strangers https://t.co/U0DdRHLvce
— CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) February 4, 2020
Google says it accidentally sent some users' private videos to strangers
— Michael Feldman (@myfeldman) February 4, 2020
*who hasn't? https://t.co/oiVnjAFdDC via @GoogleNews
Further confirmation that nothing on the internet is private https://t.co/EeYz62FqbR pic.twitter.com/tCiibraaci
— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) February 4, 2020
Let’s not forget that it’s more important that you can whiteboard algorithms than demonstrate a decade of experience building robust, secure, privacy‐aware applications.https://t.co/DF4mUrHvmN
— Max Howell (@mxcl) February 4, 2020
Google launches new social networking service. https://t.co/dtOYdt8BzF
— Daniel Tunkelang (@dtunkelang) February 4, 2020
Nightmare Google Photos bug sent private videos to the wrong people https://t.co/aINQvqHI5P
— Ron Amadeo (@RonAmadeo) February 4, 2020
Google accidentally shared your cloud video backups with strangers (by @Mixtatiq) https://t.co/baB0Kv7Kxh
— TNW (@thenextweb) February 4, 2020
Google accidentally shared your cloud video backups with strangers (by @Mixtatiq) https://t.co/HbylZ92n9W
— TNW (@thenextweb) February 4, 2020
So, Google Photos is going to close in 3 months?https://t.co/8AM97mxFaR
— Kristian Köhntopp (@isotopp) February 4, 2020
Apparently Google Photos some privacy poo poo, and according to the logic applied to G+ back at the time, it will now have to be closed quickly.
This story pairs very well with the Super Bowl ad about how you should share all your most intimate memories with Google https://t.co/bH6hVqA0Jd
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) February 4, 2020
This seems wildly insufficient, Google. At minimum, people should be informed exactly what videos of theirs were accidently provided to other users. https://t.co/wuDrsSJDrB
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) February 4, 2020
End-to-end encryption doesn't just improve end user privacy.
— Userbase (@UserbaseHQ) February 4, 2020
It also helps you radically minimize the chance that something like this could happen to your web app:https://t.co/wPZJKdU5Y5
ME [in the middle of uploading every piece of my grandparents' personal data like the Super Bowl ad told me to]: What the f- https://t.co/I0VxPHviBo
— Roger (@iamtherog) February 4, 2020
Google Photos incorrectly exported private videos to other users - what????? ???#MobileSecurity by @xdadevelopers https://t.co/CnNhxinXMy
— Mobile Security (@mobilesecurity_) February 4, 2020
Google may have shared your videos with strangers https://t.co/0VI7IkweTy
— The Cyber Security Hub (@TheCyberSecHub) February 4, 2020