Tuesday 31 October 2017

People are getting locked out of their Google Docs. Here's why you should be concerned

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It turns out that even your private documents can be censored online. This morning, a ton of users reported being locked out of completely innocuous Google Docs for "inappropriate content." 

Google's abuse policy prohibits the posting of serious threats, needlessly graphic or violent content, hate speech, harassment, confidential information, pornography, and anything illegal including child exploitation and copyrighted content. 

Today, however, multiple users believe that the content they were locked out of did not contain prohibited materialNational Geographic reporter Rachael Bale, who was locked out of a draft of a story about wildlife crime, claims that nothing in her document violated Google's policies. "It's about legal, but ethically dubious activity," she tweeted.  Read more...

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