The Hidden Flaw in Google Docs No One Talks About

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Forget about convenience—Google Docs’ real cost is your privacy. Behind the sleek interface, your data could be more vulnerable than you think. Find out why your files might not be as safe as you thought, and what you can do to protect yourself.

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00:00It's been 6 years since 50 million Google users had their data breached from a Google

00:04Plus API bug.

00:06And they're doing their best, bless them.

00:10But their security practices are still far from airtight.

00:13Let's talk about Google Docs.

00:14Their access controls are pretty good.

00:16With pass keys and 2FA and malware protection, your account is relatively secure from outside

00:20attacks.

00:21But without using end-to-end encryption, your data is living on the Google servers.

00:25Just kinda… sitting there.

00:27Yes, perhaps vulnerable to data breaches, but perhaps more importantly, subject to the

00:31whims of Google's data collection policies.

00:34Google's privacy policy allows it to collect and process the content you create in Google

00:37Docs for spam, malware, and search purposes.

00:40It saves your search queries and can combine this data with other information, such as your

00:44location and your phone number.

00:46The privacy policy also does not prevent Google from using your Google Docs content and publicly

00:50available information to train AI models.

00:53They love talking a big game about privacy, but they also settled a 93 million dollar

00:57lawsuit in 2023 about deceiving users by continuing to track their location data, even after they

01:03had turned off the location history setting on their devices.

01:06So there's that.

01:07You have been tracking us.

01:09And if you still insist on using Google Docs, for the love of God, enable 2FA, back up your

01:14important documents, avoid uploading any medical or financial info, and check your third-party

01:20add-on permissions.

01:21Better yet, use Proton Drive.

01:22It's end-to-end encrypted, allows easy collaboration, lets you set passwords for each doc, and it's

01:27really pretty.

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