Author: Makena Kelly
At a congressional privacy hearing Wednesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for an investigation into the data exposure that resulted in the shutdown of the Google+ social media network. Hours later, a bipartisan group of senators, including Blumenthal, sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission calling for the agency to take action.
In March of this year, Google discovered a bug in a Google+ API that exposed and had the potential to leak the private information of its users, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, although the exposure was kept secret for months afterward. After the news of the vulnerability surfaced, Google announced that it would begin shutting down Google+’s consumer offering over the next 10 months.
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At a congressional privacy hearing Wednesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for an investigation into the data exposure that resulted in the shutdown of the Google+ social media network. Hours later, a bipartisan group of senators, including Blumenthal, sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission calling for the agency to take action.
In March of this year, Google discovered a bug in a Google+ API that exposed and had the potential to leak the private information of its users, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, although the exposure was kept secret for months afterward. After the news of the vulnerability surfaced, Google announced that it would begin shutting down Google+’s consumer offering over the next 10 months.
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