Google+ will shut down faster after new bug impacting 52.5 million users was found

After possibly exposing user data profile data of nearly 500,000 members of its social networking site, Google announced back in October tha...

After possibly exposing user data profile data of nearly 500,000 members of its social networking site, Google announced back in October that it will close the consumer version of Google+ in August 2019.

The main reason behind Google's decision is a software bug related to the APIs used for Google+, which allowed more than 400 apps to potentially access the names, birthdates, email addresses, profile photos and other info about the service's users.

Today, Google announced that some users were once again impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting ...

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