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Ok I'm a little distressed by this tweet the article linked: https://twitter.com/Rachael_Bale/status/925352538110595072 https://twitter.com/Rachael_Bale/status/
by whalabi 7y ago
Ok I'm a little distressed by this tweet the article linked: https://twitter.com/Rachael_Bale/status/925352538110595072 https://twitter.com/Rachael_Bale/status/925352538110595072
- danso 7y agoDoes anyone know if this situation would be partially mitigated if you've enabled online access to GDrive, i.e. syncing files to your hard drive?
- chery 7y agoI rely on Google so much. One glitch in Google code can cost me a lot.
- tantalor 7y agoYou can hedge that risk with periodic backups.
- blfr 7y agoYou can even set periodic backups in Google Takeout now.
- fauigerzigerk 7y agoYes but you can't set your own schedule and it's not incremental. On the positive side, you can now directly export to OneDrive, DropBox or Box.
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- mc32 7y agoIt it looks like it was a bad code push and it was being reverted? So, I mean, those things happen for non nefarious reasons. So unless people know it was for the actual text of the doc, I think it’s likely just an unlucky glitch.
- nvrspyx 7y agoEven if it was bad code that falsely flagged the Docs, wouldn't that still imply that Google are parsing Docs in some manner if they're able to be flagged for ToS violations in general? I got the impression that Google reading your documents was the source of distress in the parent comment.
- mc32 7y agoNo, that may be a generic message wrongly assigned to the observed behavior.
- nvrspyx 7y agoI get it now. It may have (falsely) determined a violation from their behavior/use of Docs instead of the actual content of those documents. Nevermind my original comment then. That makes sense.
- duskwuff 7y ago> ...wouldn't that still imply that Google are parsing Docs in some manner if they're able to be flagged for ToS violations in general? Public documents in Google Docs are used as targets for spam or phishing campaigns pretty frequently. (The latter is usually by way of Google Forms, which can be used to drop content into a spreadsheet.) Google needs some way to allow this behavior to be flagged, and ideally to recognize it before it gets abused. Private documents are another matter. Even there, though, I imagine they are obliged to scan some content, e.g. checking images against child pornography databases.
- treypitt 7y agois there empirical evidence of this type of pornography check being performed?
- taneq 7y agoWell, the fact that Google scans your documents as you're writing them, and that they can summarily remove your access to the thing that you were working on for an indefinite amount of time, are both pretty scary for someone using Google Docs for work. I'm sure it's just fine most of the time but I don't understand how people trust it for mission critical (or even just important) stuff.
- foota 7y agoHa, journalists would be pretty high on a list of people to avoid annoying with your product errors.