

Unfortunately, this was not the case for this user and we sincerely apologize for her experience. Thankfully Google is aware of the issue and in a statement made to the publication, Google claims that they will be looking into it.Īccording to a statement made by a spokesperson, “For the vast majority of users, the default sharing permissions in Drive work as intended. The other problem is that these files cannot be fully removed either, and at most you can hide it but it will still show up if you search for it. When this happens, files will automatically appear in your Drive account. A report from How-To-Geek revealed that Google Drive has a spam problem, where anyone can share files and documents with you as long as they have your email address. Google Drive has a problem, but not so much in terms of functionality and features, but rather the abuse of one of its features that has resulted in what many consider to be spam.
