Security News > 2020 > February > Someone else may have your videos, Google tells users

During this time, some videos in Google Photos were incorrectly exported to unrelated users' archives.

Conversely, being a two-way issue, affected users might notice any videos in their archive not belonging to them.

The service is part of Google Takeout and can be used to download copies of a wide range of data relating to Google services, including photos and videos.

Google doesn't state how many users this relates to but it's safe to assume that if you used the function between those dates, you are probably affected.

Google says it has now fixed whatever problem led to the issue and advises affected users to perform another data export of the same data while deleting any already downloaded.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/05/someone-else-may-have-your-videos-google-tells-users/