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Privacy flaw flagged

Publish date: 12 February 2020
Issue Number: 1817
Diary: Legalbrief eLaw
Category: General

* Imagine opening up your Google account one day and seeing a complete stranger's video and an e-mail from Google stating that Google Photos sent your personal video to a stranger. That's what happened in November and Google has confessed and sent messages to the people involved. It said its service, which allows people to download their data, suffered a ‘technical issue’ between 21 and 25 November.

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