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 ...

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 ...

Google can't close down its troubled Google Plus social network soon enough. Two months after saying it would shutter its faltering network after a security glitch potentially exposed personal ...

Many Gmail users received an email Friday afternoon with a potentially alarming subject line: "Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus – Your Rights May Be Affected." Upon opening, though, ...

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 ...

Google Plus users can file claims in a class-action lawsuit over the social network’s privacy flaws. You have until October 8 to make a choice if you qualify. Don’t expect more than a $12 payout.

Google Plus was developed at breakneck speed to counter the rising threat of Facebook in social. Launched in June 2011, Google Plus allowed users to post status updates and organized friends into ...

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