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Google Docs Case: When Human Factor Compromises Privacy Setting

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Vova Shevchyk
Google Docs Case: When Human Factor Compromises Privacy Setting

It is hardly a new revelation for everyone that almost anything in the digital environment can act as a vacuum for our private data.

Facebook sells your data to advertisers, Google reads your email, your smartphone work as a beacon able to disclose your location at any moment with high accuracy.

In 2009, Google announced that the search engines would indicate public documents from Google Docs in search results.

In early July 2018, people began to find quite sensitive private data among Google Docs indicated by Google, Yandex, Yahoo, and some other search engines.

As one of the popular CIS news portals Medusa reported, many Russian-speaking internet users started discovering a lot of very peculiar documents through Yandex and Google since July 5.

Technically speaking, such a conspiracy is not excluded, but even so, the universal human weaknesses should stay behind the scene after all.

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