Privacy News Google+ to shut down after coverup of data breach

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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 it in March, but decided not to inform users. When a user gave permission to an app to access their public profile data, the bug also let those developers pull they and their friends’ data non-public profile fields. 496,951 users’ full names, email addresses, birth dates, gender, profile photos, places lived, occupation and relationship status were potentially exposed, though Google says it has no evidence the data was misused by the 438 apps that potentially had access..

The company decided against informing the public because it would lead to “us coming into the spotlight alongside or even instead of Facebook despite having stayed under the radar throughout the Cambridge Analytica scandal” according to an internal memo. Now Google+, which was already a ghost town largely abandoned or never inhabited by users, has become a massive liability for the company.
 

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conveniently users data breached after facebook lost 50million users data....

nothing to see here, tin foil hat folk they'd call you - a conspiracy theorist.
 
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In this day and age, informed adults should know better than to populate social and professional media sites with real personal datas.

conveniently users data breached after facebook lost 50million users data....

nothing to see here, tin foil hat folk they'd call you - a conspiracy theorist.

I call people who put 15 layers of security on their personal systems all in the pursuit to keep their personal datas out of the hands of hackers as amateur night.

I've been telling people for years that it is not their personal systems that will be compromised, but instead unsecure 3rd-party systems - just like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc, etc, etc.

When it comes to 3rd-party system hacking, there is no conspiracy. It is common knowledge that the vast majority of 3rd-party systems are insecure and it is just a matter of time before every last one of them is hacked.
 

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In this day and age, informed adults should know better than to populate social and professional media sites with real personal datas.



I call people who put 15 layers of security on their personal systems all in the pursuit to keep their personal datas out of the hands of hackers as amateur night.

I've been telling people for years that it is not their personal systems that will be compromised, but instead unsecure 3rd-party systems - just like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc, etc, etc.

When it comes to 3rd-party system hacking, there is no conspiracy. It is common knowledge that the vast majority of 3rd-party systems are insecure and it is just a matter of time before every last one of them is hacked.
I will go further - This wasn't a hack, but sold info deliberately.

#Privacy4Sale

FB give away/sell data on 50mil accounts, G+ tried to cover up their 'loss' & now Twitter announcing Private Messages may have been leaked to 3rd parties due to a 'bug'

All BS - All Selling out & id wager they all went to the same place >>>>>>>>>>>>>> CHINA
 
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I will go further - This wasn't a hack, but sold info deliberately.

#Privacy4Sale

FB give away/sell data on 50mil accounts, G+ tried to cover up their 'loss' & now Twitter announcing Private Messages may have been leaked to 3rd parties due to a 'bug'

All BS - All Selling out & id wager they all went to the same place >>>>>>>>>>>>>> CHINA

Most people will put 15 layers of security on their system, but still create bunches of online accounts. Even when they are careful, it still manages to come back and bite some of them. In this day and age, it is to be expected. This sort of stuff should come as no surprise. Privacy as it was once known is dead. It would be best if people came to terms with that fact and moved on. Because fighting for the kind of privacy that they want - ideal, principled privacy - does not exist any longer. When the world had the chance to firght for and preserve it, the world missed out. Everyone stood idly by and let them do it to them. The privacy boat has sailed. Trying to stay anonymous and private is an exercise in futility. If anyone wants to find you, and they are determined to do it, then they can - contrary to any claims that you will evade them.
 

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