There was some interesting buzz this week about Google Voice voicemail security. Some voicemail transcriptions were indexed by Googles Search engine and potentially private voicemail messages were accessible to the public.

Google has quickly responded to this security issue with an explanation and a fix. There is an option to share the Google voicemail transcript via hard-to-guess web link URL. A small number of voicemail transcriptions were shared via an URL and the Google search engine indexed them as it would any data.

Google has since changed their indexing procedure to exclude Google Voice voicemail transcriptions. The indexed transcriptions have since been purged as well.