EPISODE · Oct 9, 2018 · 8 MIN
Google's Privacy Whiplash Shows Big Tech's Inherent Contradictions
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
Google announced on Monday that it is shuttering its Google+ social network, following revelations in a Wall Street Journal report that the company did not disclose a recently discovered bug that had exposed data from up to 500,000 Google+ users users since 2015. In the same breath, the company introduced new tools to give users more control over the data they share with apps and services that connect to Google products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Google announced on Monday that it is shuttering its Google+ social network, following revelations in a Wall Street Journal report that the company did not disclose a recently discovered bug that had exposed data from up to 500,000 Google+ users users since 2015. In the same breath, the company introduced new tools to give users more control over the data they share with apps and services that connect to Google products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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