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		MertsA on Oct 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of ... >Goog is trying to avoid using the words Data breach as they may get into hot water in EU. As far as GDPR goes technically this breach happened right before they would have faced large repercussions from it.

sipos on Oct 15, 2018 [–]

It sounds like it came up as a result of their Project Strobe audit. I would guess they launched this project precisely because the penalties were about to get bigger and they knew they had skeletons.

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