Archivists are racing to preserve Google+ before it shuts down next month.
In a post on Reddit, the Archive Team announced its mission to preserve and backup Google+ content to the Internet Archive. Google will commence the shutdown of its failed soc…
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I joined Google+ to escape Facebook. It didn’t work.
After my college boyfriend and I broke up in the winter of 2011 (my senior year in college), I began to suspect he had a new flame, in large part because of the photos that started to appear on Facebook.
“That was taken from the perspective of …
Google to kill Google+ early after exposing personal data of more than 50 million
Google will end the consumer version of its ill-fated social network Google+ in April, four months earlier than expected, after finding another security issue impacting more than 50 million people.
In a blog post Monday, Google said that a November s…
Google exposed personal data of almost 500,000 and didn’t disclose it
A bug in Google+ exposed the personal data of nearly 500,000 people and Google chose not to disclose it out of fears of regulatory pressure.
That’s the stunning revelation in a new report in The Wall Street Journal.
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Google+ to shut down after coverup of data breach
Google is about to have its Cambridge Analytica moment. A security bug allowed third-party developers to access Google+ user profile data since 2015 until Google discovered and patched it in March, but decided not to inform the world. When a user gave permission to an app to access their public profile data, the bug also […]
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