{"id":9116,"date":"2021-07-26T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:41:30","slug":"google-takes-action-on-google-drive-spam-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/google-takes-action-on-google-drive-spam-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Takes Action On Google Drive Spam Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the next 15 days, Google will introduce a simple spam tool that allows users to block individual email addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after the spam problem in Google Drive, which allowed anyone to share a file with users as long as they knew their addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new feature, blocking a user not only prevents them from sharing content with a specific person but also removes all sharing between an individual and a blocked person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The feature will also block a person across many other Google services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is commendable, but more needs to be done, as any spammer can easily create a new account and bypass the fix.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/07\/google-is-finally-doing-something-about-google-drive-spam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will introduce a simple spam tool that allows users to block individual email addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-9116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9182,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/9182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}