Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents

pGoogle has accidentally collected childrens voice data leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users and made YouTube recommendations based on users deleted watch history among thousands of other employeereported privacy incidents according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and security issues obtained by 404 MediappIndividually the incidents most of which have not been previously publicly reported may only each impact a relatively small number of people or were fixed quickly Taken as a whole though the internal database shows how one of the most powerful and important companies in the world manages and often mismanages a staggering amount of personal sensitive data on peoples livesppThe data obtained by 404 Media includes privacy and security issues that Googles own employees reported internally These include issues with Googles own products or data collection practices vulnerabilities in third party vendors that Google uses or mistakes made by Google staff contractors or other people that have impacted Google systems or data The incidents include everything from a single errant email containing some PII through to substantial leaks of data right up to impending raids on Google offices When reporting an incident employees give the incident a priority rating P0 being the highest P1 being a step below that The database contains thousands of reports over the course of six years from 2013 to 2018ppp