Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service

[DEAD7]

Google Docs, the collaborative, cloud-based word processing software, appears to be randomly flagging files for supposedly "violating" Google's Terms of Service. A member of Motherboard's team, as well as numerous users on Twitter, report that their documents are being locked for no apparent reason. Once a document is flagged, the owner of that document can no longer share it with other users. Users who have already been shared on a document that's been flagged are kicked out and can no longer access it.
When a draft Motherboard article was locked on Monday morning, a message took over the screen that read "This item has been flagged as inappropriate and can no longer be shared." It's not clear why this is happening, but it may be the result of a glitch in the system Google uses to monitor Google Docs. DownDetector is currently reporting Google Drive problems in the US and Europe, which may be part of the problem.

Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service

 

[OfTheCross]

What effect will this have on my archived screenshots of nekkid FaceTimes

Edit.. NM. You said Docs, not Drive. I should be straight

 

[Colilluminati]

Going to show this to my district . We've been trying to figure out why we can't share the business board damn it is useless

 

[Pressure]

Going to show this to my district . We've been trying to figure out why we can't share the business board damn it is useless

Stop being cheap!

 

[Colilluminati]

Stop being cheap!

Company thought it was a good idea not me

 

[Pressure]

Company thought it was a good idea not me

What's the name of the company.

 

[delta]

the fact we let Google, DropBox / etc scan our docs is crazy

 

[Pressure]

@Colilluminati

 

[hashmander]

glad i don't use that shyt for anything sensitive.

 

[Colilluminati]

@Colilluminati

We got a email last week about some regulations Trump is about to roll back. Someone asked in the email chain how did they find this info out? The entire email chain was deleted. I've never seen that happen before .

 

[Pressure]

We got a email last week about some regulations Trump is about to roll back. Someone asked in the email chain how did they find this info out? The entire email chain was deleted. I've never seen that happen before .

If you use exchange that's an easy compliance center search.

 

[ORDER_66]

I use google docs religiously... Why lord?

 

[Colilluminati]

If you use exchange that's an easy compliance center search.

Outlook. The company was basically bragging how Trump is gonna let them rip everyone off .

 

[Pressure]

Outlook. The company was basically bragging how Trump is gonna let them rip everyone off .

Yeaaa....someone is holding that L. People use e-mail like it's not one of the most tracked forms of communication.

And I don't know about your job, but from my experience people can't wait to snitch to get ahead or just for some sense of displaced loyalty/

 

[hashmander]

Yeaaa....someone is holding that L. People use e-mail like it's not one of the most tracked forms of communication.

And I don't know about your job, but from my experience people can't wait to snitch to get ahead or just for some sense of displaced loyalty/

i've always treated my non-pgp emails as if they were postcards.