{"id":3736,"date":"2019-11-11T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2020-02-07T21:12:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T02:12:13","slug":"google-translate-is-a-security-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2019\/11\/11\/google-translate-is-a-security-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate poses a security risk."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of articles\u00a0to be found detailing\u00a0why it&#8217;s not safe to translate sensitive internal business documents using Google Translate.\u00a0 Most of these articles discuss accuracy and confidentiality.\u00a0 But Google translate is also dangerous because it acts as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proxy_server\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proxy<\/a> by design, creating a security issue.\u00a0 That means you can plug in a URL in any language, including English and Google will display the contents of the site.\u00a0 This undermines any corporate security measures put in place to keep employees away from blocked or compromised sites.\u00a0 The answer is a translation service from Google or a competitor built for business.\u00a0 This would allow for administrative and user authentication\u00a0logging\u00a0what sites are translated and monitoring documents uploaded for translation.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s also a revenue generator for the first service to come up with such an administrative translation control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of articles\u00a0to be found detailing\u00a0why it&#8217;s not safe to translate sensitive internal business documents using Google Translate.\u00a0 Most of these articles discuss accuracy and confidentiality.\u00a0 But Google translate is also dangerous because it acts as a proxy by design, creating a security issue.\u00a0 That means you can plug in a URL in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2019\/11\/11\/google-translate-is-a-security-risk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Translate poses a security risk.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are plenty of articles to be found detailing why it&#039;s not safe to translate sensitive internal business documents using Google Translate. 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