Google Docs docs lost privacy again

Those who store their passwords on the Google Docs service may begin to worry, because there was a “data leak” again, that is, the user's private files accidentally ended up in a “partially open” access. More precisely, they have become, without the knowledge of the author, available to those users for whom the author or co-author has previously opened other documents. An error occurred if a user selected a group of files and changed access rights for them. In this case, for other text documents and presentations (but not for spreadsheets), access rights have changed unauthorized.

Reportedly, the bug affected less than 0.05% of the total number of files stored on servers. The developers have already identified and fixed the error. All victims were sent a letter explaining the situation.

To prevent the consequences of loss of privacy, Google launched an automatic process to close access to all “partially shared” files on all accounts that Google seemed to have suffered from the bug. If in your documents the access rights were reset by mistake, then you need to reinstall them.

Such bugs are like a balm for the soul of those users who are still afraid to store files on network services. Many feel for no reason the subconscious feeling that the data on your home PC is safer than on Google’s servers. This phobia in front of network storages is akin to fear of flying on an airplane, although, as you know, an airplane is a much safer form of transport than a car. However, people listen carefully to the news of the crashes, because this information is completely correlated with their unconscious fears, and they do not pay any attention to the daily news of hundreds of deaths on the roads.
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The daily flow of theft of laptops, personal computers and reading information from the old HDD is not able to convince convinced paranoids, but they will remember such a glitch in Google Docs for a long time and will retell it to everyone they know, perhaps for many years. It's all about psychology.

via TechCrunch