In Japan, a flubbed privacy setting made public a Google Groups chat among Japanese bureaucrats, allowing any-and-everyone to see internal memos, including negotiating positions for an international treaty. The default settings for Google Groups, which are established by the party that started the chat, allow public access to discussion threads. A drop-down menu can rectify this potential problem, but apparently not everyone is privy to that fact.
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Japanese Officials Unwittingly Open Kimono in Google Groups
Posted by: David Vranicar July 11, 2013 11:14 AMIn Japan, a flubbed privacy setting made public a Google Groups chat among Japanese bureaucrats, allowing any-and-everyone to see internal memos, including negotiating positions for an international treaty. The default settings for Google Groups, which are established by the party that started the chat, allow public access to discussion threads. A drop-down menu can rectify this potential problem, but apparently not everyone is privy to that fact.