Google Photos sends many private videos of some users to strangers due to technical issues

Google Photos - the photo and video sharing and storage service of Google has a security vulnerability that caused some of the videos stored on them to have been exported to the archives of many random unidentified users. year old. This has a significant impact on user privacy.

Google has acknowledged this issue and sent a notice to some affected Google Photos users.

According to Google, the flaw resulted from a technical problem within the Google Takeout service. Specifically, users may download other users' data when exporting photos or videos saved on Google Photo to TakeOut to download.

Most likely, one user's videos have been submitted to a number of other users (unknown quantity). Neither Google nor users know what videos are shared.

Google only mentions "videos" so it's likely that image files won't be affected by the output.

The incident took place over a period of five days between November 21 and November 25, and the company has yet to determine how many people have fallen victim to the aforementioned negligence and the number of incidents. private videos, photos leaked.

Currently, Google has fixed this problem.

1. Google Photos introduces a new messaging feature that allows sharing photos extremely quickly
2. Google launches Gallery Go, a lighter version of Google Photos for low-profile devices