A six-year span of internal Google reports, unearthed by 404 Media, exposes a troubling array of privacy breaches affecting everything from children’s voice data to the home addresses of unsuspecting carpool users.
These breaches include making YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch histories. These issues, though not widely known or impactful on a large scale, reveal the complex challenges faced by one of the tech world’s behemoths.
from the article…
“….As a result, our database of objects detected from Street View now inadvertently contains a database of geolocated license plate numbers and license plate number fragments,” a Google employee said. This error, they assured, was accidental and that the data has since been eliminated….”
DELETED..?? As if..
Of course it was deleted, right after it was scraped by No Such Agency
” … a troubling array of privacy breaches …”
They only become troubling once they’re exposed.
Maybe if they change the battery it will delete the wrongly gathered prvate information. They can get Mihn Doan to help………
Commemorative Logos? You mean like using June 6th to highlight a hardcore gay rights advocate who was born in Germany instead of honoring the D-Day 80th Anniversary? Those commemorative logos?
How lo, indeed, can you go?