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Google’s accidental reveal: Google Voice has 1.4m subs

Google Voice has 1.4 million subscribers including 570,000 daily users, according to a compromised filing with the US Federal Communications Commission. Google blamed a formatting gaffe for accidentally releasing confidential statistics as a PDF on the regulator’s Web site. “We had intended to keep sensitive information regarding our partners and the number of Google Voice users confidential,” the company said in a statement.