It also shows a full history of edits made by each user. Now, the question is, if you open a publicly shared Google Doc, does the owner of the document learn your identity?Įxplicitly shared documents show the name and avatar of users who have currently opened the document.
Some organizations use link sharing to collaborate on internal documents (it’s a terrible idea). Link sharing is widely used to share press releases, online courses and other public documents. You can publish the URL online or send it to your mailing lists to share it with a large group of people.
By turning on link sharing, Google Drive produces a URL that gives access to the file. But it also has a link-sharing feature that enables you to share documents with anyone without explicitly including them in the document’s access list. Google Drive lets you share your documents with specific people by selecting their Google Account emails. Does viewing publicly shared Google Docs reveal your identity? The following post focuses on link-sharing in Google Docs, but the same rules also apply to other file types shared in Google Drive. In this post, I will go over the privacy issues of Google Drive link-sharing and whether malicious actors can use publicly shared Google Drive files to gather sensitive information about users.
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