Tech Giant Google to shutdown Google+


Posted October 29, 2018 by victorious

Google+ is a consumer social networking site created by Google. On 15th of October 2018, In a blog post it was stated that Google is going to shut down consumer social networking site named Google+, as it failed to live up to its expectations.

 
The technical glitch was detected in a Project Strobe started by Google this year. It is a root and branch review of third party developer access to Google accounts and android device data. The bug was discovered in March 2018. The Wall Street journal was the first one to report it. However there is no evidence to this that the data was breached by the developers nor are the developers aware of it, says Google.
Google admits that Google+ has badly failed to keep up to its expectations of consumer adoption since start. As it is the engagement and usage was very low. Therefore its existence and non-existence would hardly make a difference.
Smith says that it will take around 10 months to fully shutdown the service. To give people a full opportunity to transition, we will implement this slated for completion by the end of next August. Over the coming months, Google will provide consumers with additional information, including ways they can download and migrate their data.
The company announced new privacy adjustments for other Google service. API changes will limit developers’ access to data on Android devices and Gmail. Developers will no longer receive call log and SMS permissions on Android devices and contact interaction data won’t be available through the Android Contacts API. That same also API provided basic interaction data, like who you last messaged, and that permission is also being revoked. Any developer who will have access to this will have to undergo security assessments and agree to new rules about data handling, like not transferring or selling user data for targeting ads, market research, email campaign tracking.
More information will be available over the coming months, including ways that users can download and migrate their data.
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Last Updated October 29, 2018