be privately stored in the Internet giant's online Docs application
service.
The problem was fixed by the weekend and is believed to have affected
only .05 percent of the digital documents at a Google Docs service
that provides text-handling programs as services on the Internet.
"We've identified and fixed a bug where a very small percentage of
users shared some of their documents inadvertently," Google Docs
Product Manager Jennifer Mazzon wrote in a message at the firm's
website on Saturday.
"We're sorry for the trouble this has caused. We understand our users'
concerns (in fact, we were affected by this bug ourselves) and we're
treating this very seriously."
The problem occurred in cases where people had chosen to collaborate
on multiple documents and adjusted settings to allow access to others,
according to Google.
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Collaborators were unintentionally given permission to access
documents aside from the ones intended.
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"As part of the fix, we used an automated process to remove
collaborators and viewers from the documents that we identified as
having been affected," Mazzon said.
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