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Google suffered from yet another leak that revealed how the tech giant
accidentally collected speech data from children, according to a new
report.[1]


It revealed thousands of internal incident reports by employees from 2013
through 2018, describing Google's mishandling of sensitive private
information.

The voice collection included speeches for about a thousand kids who have
been captured through YouTube Kids.

These included unblurring sensitive YouTube videos and exposing addresses
stored in Waze, among others.

Just days after 2,500 documents exposed how its algorithm decides what users
see on Sunday, the internet giant had what was described as the mother of
all leaks.
An unidentified person leaked the incidents’ data, which claims are made by
404 Media, and this information is authentic according to them.

However, 404 reported that they verified the legitimacy of this particular
document; at least some contents were confirmed by Google itself.

Waze Carpool, a service that links drivers and passengers with similar
destinations, began in 2016 but closed its operations in 2022 following
increased trends in remote work.

There were other reports where videos uploaded to YouTube only as private
were found to be accessible by the public after the blurring effect failed
and showed uncensored content.

In addition, there are claims that the transcribing of license plate numbers
from some photos taken in 2016 was mistakenly done by Street View. This
happened after the text recognition system employed in Street View images
accidentally picked up some license plates while capturing texts on them.

According to an employee report, these license plate numbers were
inadvertently included in the database of Street View objects and this was
blamed on a system designed not to transcribe such information.

The same report also revealed a data breach involving more than one million
emails from an app now owned by Google that affected Socratic.org, an
educational platform. Though this breach took place before Google’s
acquisition, it heightened concerns about geolocation and IP data exposure.

In 2018, Google was sued for violating privacy rights; it was accused of
breaking the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and state consumer
protection laws through child information gathering.

Days earlier, Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, confirmed
reports of unauthorized access to its database, potentially exposing the
personal information of 560 million customers. The breach, claimed by the
hacking group ShinyHunters, includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and
partial credit card details of Ticketmaster users globally. The hackers are
demanding a $500,000 ransom to prevent the data from being sold.

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