Google had had thousands of privacy incidents over the span of six years between 2013 and 2018 flagged by the company employees, the internal database leak revealed
A series of internal documents reveal that Google collected the voices of children, home addresses, license plate numbers of vehicles and suggested YouTube recommendations from deleted history, finds a 404 Media report.
The tech giant had had thousands of privacy incidents over the span of six years between 2013 and 2018 flagged by company employees, the internal database leak revealed.
The latest reports claim the search engine’s algorithm was responsible for collecting private data.
Other significant incidents include
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Exposing over 1 million Socratic.org (a company Google acquired) users’ email addresses and possible geolocation and IP data.
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Google accessed private videos on Nintendo’s YouTube account, leading to the premature public leak of its announcements.
While Google maintains all these issues were resolved when pointed out, the leak shows that even the biggest tech firms are vulnerable to erroneous data collection practices, third-party vulnerabilities and internal mistakes.