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Google Fixes Document-Sharing Privacy Flaw
By: Brian Prince
2009-03-09
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Google reports it has swatted a bug that caused private Google Docs documents to be shared inadvertently. The bug affected fewer than .05 percent of Google Docs documents.Google has fixed a glitch in its document-sharing system that
caused private Google Docs documents to be shared accidentally.
According to Google, fewer
than .05 percent of Google Docs documents were affected by the privacy breach.
"As we noted in the Google Docs Help Forum yesterday, we've identified
and fixed a bug where a very small percentage of users shared some of their
documents inadvertently," Google Docs Product Manager Jennifer Mazzon
wrote in a blog post. "The inadvertent sharing was limited to people with
whom the document owner, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously
shared a document. The issue affected so few users because it only could have
occurred for a very small percentage of documents, and for those documents only
when a specific sequence of user actions took place."
Google said the bug did not affect spreadsheets. As part of the fix, Google
used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the
documents identified as having been affected. The company then e-mailed the
document owners to point them to their affected documents in case they wanted
to share them again.
"We're sorry for the trouble this has caused," Mazzon continued.
"We understand our users' concerns (in fact, we were affected by this bug
ourselves) and we're treating this very seriously. We hope this explanation
provides greater clarity."
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