I'm pretty sure there's a huge number of these CCPA/GDPR implementation bugs. I know of a couple myself.
Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
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Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
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Everybody makes mistakes and nothing in the world is black and white. The only question is, is your cloud provider less likely to make mistakes with your data than you are? For most people, the answer is going to be orders of magnitude less likely.
Just encrypt your data before putting it onto somebody else's computer a.k.a. the cloud.
Easier said than done:
- If you share something, you need a way to share the key
- Things like a truecrypt drive work poorly with file sync clients
Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
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I get an absolutely endless parade of other people's data to my gmail account. Doctors send me MRI scans. Bankers send me foreclosure notices. Airlines send me tickets. Undertakers send me condolences. The preponderance of evidence suggests that relying on individual vigilance on a large scale does not work as well as relying on the vigilance of large organizations.
Your experience is far different than mine. In 15 years I only got probably like 2 accidental emails. Is your email something like john@gmail.com?
I'm somewhere in-between your experience and the parent's. I've had 2-3 instances where it appears that someone put my email address on their account by accident, and I got their auto insurance claims, etc. There was no "click here to verify this is your address" email sent for those.
I also got a lot of email for a high school reunion where the school was named after someone who shares my name... And people routinely left off the numbers in the email address, ending up with mine.
The rest of the not-mine emails all look like phishing attempts to me, and not just mistakes made by some office worker.
Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
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> For most people, self hosting their own data isn’t even an option. I'm trying hard to invalidate this with PhotoStructure. My goal is to be installable and usable by even my least-computer-savvy family members. Although there are desktop installers, users can move their library to a NAS, rPI, oDroid, NUC or a VM in the cloud--anything that can host 64-bit docker images--but only if they want to. Everything in your…
How are photos added to the library? I had a quick look through the PhotoStructure website and it looks interesting, but I haven't seen this answered. For me the appeal of Google Photos is that all my phone's photos get uploaded when I'm on wifi. PS: There's an image that can't be loaded on the confirmation page when registering for email updates.
> How are photos added to the library?
PhotoStructure imports files that are available to the device that it runs on: local files and anything mounted via a network filesystem (like AFS, NFS, or SMB/CIFS).
I use SyncThing or Resilio Sync to send my phone's photos and videos to my NAS. When I'm on vacation with limited bandwidth, I add a sync node on my laptop (which is connected to the hotel WiFi), so my phone syncs quickly to my laptop next to me, and then through the course of the day, the laptop syncs back home.
Although it's certainly more convenient to have everything wrapped into one app, I think there's an appeal to being able to choose the tool that works for you. (In other words: it's much less code I have to write and maintain--writing battery-efficient, stable background jobs on both iOS and Android are a PITA!)
> There's an image that can't be loaded on the confirmation page
Are you using ublock origin or a pihole? Those block most images coming from mailchimp.
Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
#85Desktop based applications making a come back
Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
#86Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
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I assume that this not because Google is midirecting email, but rather because your email address is quite close to that of others. Mine is just my last name @gmail.com. It is a rather uncommon name, and I've met many others with that name, as I've accidentally received email intended for them.
> Mine is just my last name @gmail.com. It is a rather uncommon name I'm in the same boat. And uncommon, but not rare. I've gotten emails intended for my brother. One time, I got a collector emailing about something with a rental car crash that I previously got confirmation email for. Recently, a Dutch woman discovered email and think she has my email address. It's amazing how many websites don't verify email address…
If Eurocrats really want to save the Internet they'd fine companies for sending anything to recipients who haven't been double-verified.
Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
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Your comment is quite anecdotal I would dare to say, and anyway the scope of single individuals messing up is quite, quite smaller than the scope of $LARGE_COMPANY. Even if you sum all those individuals.
Lol. The potential impact of a large company screwing up is massive. The risk is lower. I would assert that the probability of an individual overexposing their own data in any one year period is probably close to 75%. In my neighborhood, 5-6 cars are broken into every week, because the owners don’t lock the doors. If a process that simple isn’t handled well, folks aren’t handling more complex/abstract processes.
How do I leak my email or photos from my local machine? And if I do, then I'm likely still leaking my local cache/copy even if I use cloud.
Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
#89It would be nice if they could tell you what photos/videos were sent to strangers.
Logging is really locked down due to GDPR stuff... Which ironically means the privacy laws means they've deleted the specifics of the privacy violations that occurred.
Re: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
#90Considering this is 4 months later... This can't have been very widespread. If I saw someone else's video in my takeout archive, I'd have totally contacted the tech media...