Google closing Google+ after a privacy flaw
Google closing Google+ after a privacy flaw
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The company never reported it.
HourGoogle is closing Google+ for consumers after a revelation on Monday that the private data of hundreds of thousands of users in its disappointing social network were potentially exposed due to an error that the Alphabet company kept quiet.
The flaw gave third-party developers possible access to private profile data for Google+ users, although Google says it found no evidence that any developer was aware of the error or that the profile data was misused.
The Wall Street Journal He was the first to report the news.
According to Google, the error was fixed last March and the profiles of up to 500,000 Google+ users were potentially affected. Google says the data was limited to optional profile fields that included a person's name, email address, occupation, gender, and age. The company added that the flaw did not affect any other data it posted or connected to Google+ or any other service, such as Google+ messages, messages, Google account data, phone numbers or G Suite content. .
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Google+ was never close to challenging its rival Facebook for the supremacy of social networks, with Google, but recognizing this fact in the publication of the blog that announces the imminent disappearance of the service. Vice President of google engineering Ben Smith blogged that "the Google+ consumer version currently has little use and commitment: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds." It will close during the next 10 months.
On the blog, Smith wrote that Google discovered the error as part of an effort that began at the beginning of the year called Project Strobe: "a root revision of third-party developer access to the Google account and Android device data."
The project examined privacy controls, as well as "areas where developers may have gained too broad access and other areas where our policies should be stricter".
In addition to closing Google+, the company said it was releasing more granular Google account permissions for consumers. "When an application asks you to access the data in your Google account, we always ask you to see the data you requested and give you explicit permission," the blog states. For example, if a developer wants to access both your Google Calendar entries and your Google Drive documents, you can choose to share one but not the other, says Google.
Among other privacy measures that are being implemented, Google will limit Android applications that can request permission to access the call and text registration data on their phone, with only one application that you have selected as your default application to make calls or text messages. Messages capable of making such requests.
Like Facebook, Google has faced a number of privacy issues. More recently, Google was forced to update its popular Chrome web browser after a negative reaction on recent changes in the way you log in to the browser. Under that change, when you signed into any Google website, like Gmail, you would automatically sign in to Chrome with the same account, even if that was not your intention.
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