A significant number of users are complaining about the error Google Calendara well-known calendar service from the search engine giant that causes the emergence or creation random events leading to unrelated Gmail messages.

Users affected by the bug saw that Google Calendar was showing events all day yesterday that were randomly generated based on some Gmail messages that weren’t necessarily related to any specific event. This circumstance makes the bug found in the calendar service all the more puzzling, as there is no clear pattern, at least from the point of view of the end user.

Among the events they saw affected users, there is a day-long one called “United States Privacy Notice” (US Privacy Notice), which also appeared as a notification on many Android smartphones. The reporter they also seem to trigger these random and buggy events (at least from the end user’s perspective).

The origin of the error in Google Calendar is not clear, but the solution is apparently simple, since it consists of switching to Settings > Gmail Events in the Android app, then turn off “Show Gmail Events”.. After that, affected users should no longer see these strange random events, although if you see that everything is fine and the feature is useful to you, there is no reason to disable it.

We’ll see if Google releases any explanation related to this incident, which is sure to have pissed off a lot of people. Seeing what happened recently with LastPass admitting that the attack it received in August was much worse than expected, let’s hope it was an internal failure and not something caused by an external attacker, because otherwise it could snowball grow and cause catastrophic consequences. , especially if we see that Gmail is a service that has hundreds of millions or billions of users with billions of active accounts in total.

We strongly recommend that you carefully review your current, past, and future Google Calendar events to ensure that everything is correct, and report any errors to the company.