Security News > 2020 > February > Google Takeout a bit too true to its name after potentially 1000s of private videos shared with complete strangers

A bug in Google's Photo software caused potentially 100,000 or more netizens to have their personal videos exposed to complete strangers last Thanksgiving.

The Chocolate Factory this week began notifying punters that a bug in its data-archiving tool Takeout was to blame for some accounts having their private videos shared with total strangers.

"Unfortunately, during this time some videos in Google Photos were incorrectly exported to unrelated users archives," Google told folks in an email.

"We are notifying people about a bug that may have affected users who used Google Takeout to export their Google Photos content between November 21 and November 25," Google said in a statement to El Reg.

Google could not say what measures it would take for those whose images were inadvertently shared by the glitch.

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