There was a bug that 'Private movie' on Google Photos was downloaded to other users


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` ` Google Takeout (Google Data Export) '' that can download data such as Google Photos and YouTube, which is Google's cloud storage application, causes a problem that `` movies saved in Google Photos are transferred to other users '' Turned out to have been.

Google Photos video backups sent to strangers last year-9to5Google
https://9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-photos-video-strangers/

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Google Takeout is a service that allows you to download and save data such as 'Google Photos', 'Calendar', 'Contacts' and 'YouTube' provided in the Japanese version as 'Google Data Export' and ' Download Data '. The following articles explain in detail how to use Google Takeout.

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However, from November 21 to 25, 2019, a problem occurred in which a movie saved in Google Photos by a user using Google Takeout was transferred to another user. Google will notify users who have been disadvantaged by this issue by email that the issue has occurred. The email said, `` From November 21 to 25, 2019, a bug occurred in which one or more movies stored in Google Photos were transferred to unrelated users '' `` Downloaded during the same period Your data may not include all movies, or may include movies that are not yours. '




According to The Verge, this email was sent to a user who downloaded a movie of an unrelated person trying to download his data. It is unknown if Google is notifying people who have downloaded the movie to unrelated people.

Google states that this issue has been resolved and encourages users to delete their Google Takeout data stored during that period and download it again. According to 9to5Google, Google stated, 'This issue affected less than 0.01% of Google Takeout users. There is no impact to services other than Google Photos. We have already fixed the underlying issue, We conducted a detailed analysis to prevent this from happening again, and we apologize for any such issues. '

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