A million daily active users on ‘Google+’ may require a new service
Google+ is quitting operations for its consumers following a persisting data breach on its service
Google+ may not have a huge number of entries as the search engine Google itself, but it records over 300 million active users in a month giving it a average usage of 1 million user per day.

This is not that far away from twitter, which records over 328 million active users per month, although none can not be compared to the search domain Google that receives over 1 billion search per day or to Zuckerberg’s Facebook that records over 2.23 billion active users every month.
You just might be like me, who really cares about Google about Google+ when there is Google to solve all my problems.

Unfortunately, whether you’ve forgotten about it or not, if you have a Google+ account, your data may have been put at risk following a recent data breach.

According to a publication by Google today, the company discovered a “bug” in one of its Google+ “People APIs” that exposed some private user data to third-party developers. The exposed data includes: occupations, genders, ages, and email addresses of many users, which are supposed to be private data. This breach was possible despite the user’s privacy settings. Google claims that it “discovered and immediately patched” the bug in March 2018, but the flaw has existed since 2015.

Google says it has not found any evidence that developers were aware of the bug, so it’s unlikely that anyone abused it. However, the fact that this vulnerability existed for long even if it did not expose any particularly sensitive information , has raised a red flag.

The shut down will be a gradual one rather than a force stop, it will come after a 10-month “wind-down” period, which ends next August.

Enterprise users will continue to have access to the platform for the foreseeable future – Google says the social media website is better as an enterprise product, anyway.

During the next 10 months, Google will provide consumers with “additional information” regarding ways they can download or migrate their data to other social media platforms if they so desire.

Source >>> https://www.askifa.ng/a-million-daily-active-users-on-google-may-require-a-new-service/