Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public

Re:Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclos... by glenrivard on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:10PM (#18172108)

Wow the Wall St. Journal and Murdoch really does not like Google.

This article makes this sound like this is something that it appears to not be.

Did this all start when Google fired Damore? Or does it date further back?

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Re:Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclos... by gman83 on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:50PM (#18172281)

Goes way back:

http://allthingsd.com/20091124/whats-really-behind-the-rupe-...

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Re:Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclos... by puzzle on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:28PM (#18172432)

No mention of the Google-Murdoch spate is complete without a link to this classic: https://europe.googleblog.com/2014/09/dear-rupert_25.html

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Re:Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclos... by throwaway829 on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:58PM (#18173225)

>We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we cannot confirm which users were impacted by this bug.

They only kept two weeks of logs, yet this bug was accessible over a three year window. So out of 156 weeks they can only rule out 2 weeks where data was not accessed. I think that's pretty pathetic for a company that stores your precise location, search history, photos, email, text messages, calendar, social network, date of birth, etc.

This is a very big story. Hence why Google executives sat on it for six months.

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