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In the last week some news has come out about Google and we decided to summarize it in a single article. That most famous and sensational, which you may have already heard about, is that Google accidentally saved the videos of some users in the archives of people who had nothing to do with them.
Latest news on Google: Google Takeout and Google Photos
Google Takeout it is a Google tool that is used to export your Google data. It can be very useful, for example, to those who decide to abandon the Google ecosystem and take away all your personal archives. With a simple button, in fact, you can ask Google to prepare your bags and of make a nice zip out of it to download calmly.
The episode we are talking about happened for the Takeouts carried out from 21 to 25 November 2019. Essentially what happened was that those who used the Google Takeout tool to export their data, including the photos on Google Photos, it could be found within his archive also private videos of other Google users.
Photos in the cloud?
Google says it has already fixed this bug, but it's still there perplexity in leaving private videos and photos in the cloud, especially to a giant like Google. Let us always remember that the cloud is not magic but it's simply the someone else's computer, let's never forget it.
If the episode scared you, but not enough to convince you not to keep your photos online, we recommend at least moving them to other shores, you can read our article on alternatives to Google Photos.
We can't say for sure, but maybe with a cloud with End-to-end encryption (as Tresorit or Mega) this couldn't have happened?
To find out more you can read the article on 9to5Google or up Wired.
Latest news on Google: Google under investigation for geolocations
The Irish commission Data Protection Commission has launched an investigation into Google into the processing and sharing of data relating to geolocation.
What does it mean? It means that Google may have collected location data of users without clearly informing users that this was happening. Without Therefore a true is exactly explicit consent.
In short it would not be the first time that Google collects our data without telling us anything – but only for our good – right?
To find out more, read the article on The print.
Latest Google News: Can Chrome Track Users?
A thread interesting on GitHub. It talks about the fact that Google Chrome can track users by following their installation ID. Practically, by installing Chrome, you are assigned an ID and via this Google ID can track what you do within the Google ecosystem.
Many have the doubt that this may also clash a bit with the new one GDPR regulation. If you use Chrome and you want to change Browsers, read our article on alternatives to Google Chrome!
You can read the most interesting part of the GitHub thread by clicking here.
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