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Google Docs glitch locks out users; puts spotlight on privacy concerns

Published Wed, Nov 1, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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GOOGLE Docs threw some users for a loop on Tuesday when the service suddenly locked them out of their documents for violating Google's terms of service.

The weird part? The documents were innocuous. The alerts were caused by a glitch, but they served as a stark reminder that not much is truly private in the cloud.

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