Google Photos download feature mixed up users' archives
Your videos could have been downloaded with someone else's data export, Google admits

Google casually confessed to the mix-up in an email to users
Users of Google Photos who requested a Google "Download your data' export in November may have been given videos belonging to other users, or have received incomplete archives. The company has casually...
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