Google is closing its troubled Google Plus social network following the discovery of a software glitch this past spring that may have exposed user information of up to 500,000 customers between 2015 ...

Those words should be welcome news for most people, but they’re oddly disconcerting when they appear at the top of an email from Google. That was the reality for many Gmail users this week when an ...

Here’s a quick recap. Between 2015 and March 2018, there was a serious privacy hole in the Google Plus social network that meant users’ names, email addresses, dates of birth, genders, profile ...

The ongoing Google Plus litigation has now ended with a settlement agreed for users potentially impacted by security issues on the platform. Google Plus never did manage to gain the user base or ...

Over the past couple of weeks, many consumers were surprised by a string of headlines involving Google’s social media service, Google Plus. The platform had a major security flaw that company didn’t ...

In August 2020, some users of Gmail, the Google email service, reported receiving a message with the subject line, "Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus – Your Rights May Be Affected." The ...

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When it closes down, Google Plus will have run for eight years. Google Reader Next August when Google Plus does shutter forever, perhaps the only people who'll notice are the ones who've made a note ...

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