It’s not been the most comfortable few weeks for Google, and now another internal leak, uncovered by 404 Media (npub1psa…j5uh) only piles the pressure on the search giant further.
This time, a copy of an internal Google database shows six years’ worth of potential privacy and security issues, as reported by employees internally. This is said to include accidentally collected children’s voice data, leaked trips and home addresses of car pool users and the use of users’ deleted watch history to make YouTube recommendations.
“Individually the incidents… may only each impact a relatively small number of people or were fixed quickly,” reports 404 Media. “Taken as a whole, though, the internal database shows how one of the most powerful and important companies in the world manages, and often mismanages, a staggering amount of personal, sensitive data on people’s lives.” Here’s more.
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