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GOOGLE PLUS TO CLOSE AFTER BUG LEAKS PERSONAL INFORMATION

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Google is shutting down its long-shunned Plus social network for consumers, following its disclosure of a flaw discovered in March that could have exposed some personal information of up to 500,000 people.

The announcement came in a blog post, which marked Google’s first public description of the privacy bug.

Google deliberately avoided disclosing the problem at

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