Roskomnadzor demanded an explanation from Yandex regarding the situation with Google Docs

The company Yandex received an official request from Roskomnadzor regarding the situation with the indexing of Google Docs documents, Vedomosti reports .

The Roskomnadzor confirmed the fact of sending the request: “In connection with the incident, the MKN sent a formal request to Yandex. Additional comments on this issue will be published on the agency’s website. ” We are talking about the incident that happened on the night of 4 to 5 July. Then the search engine showed in the issuance of documents Google Docs. Information about this appeared in a number of Telegram channels, and after - in the media.

By specifying the search direction on docs.google.com and entering a search query (for example, “passwords”), you could get Google documents with private data from a number of companies in the Yandex results. Among other data in such documents phone numbers and e-mail data, as well as accounts to various resources were indicated.

The representative of “Yandex” Ilya Grabovsky said that from Wednesday to Thursday several users complained to the support service about the general availability of Google Docs files, and the security service immediately contacted employees from Google “to draw their attention to the fact that in these files may be private information. "

On July 5, Yandex corporation posted an explanation in its blog, according to which the company's search service indexes only those pages and documents that do not require entering a login and password to view their contents. If indexing is prohibited in the robots.txt file, Yandex does not see this page, even if it is freely available.

This explanation was followed by the appeal of Google. Company representatives reminded users that privacy settings can be changed at any convenient time. By the way, you can easily search Google Docs for unclosed documents in Google. Some documents that were previously displayed in “Yandex” can be found by typing the corresponding query into the Google search bar.