{"id":7319,"date":"2018-10-09T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T08:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2018-10-09T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T08:08:20","slug":"google-is-sunsetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/10\/09\/google-is-sunsetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ is &lsquo;sunsetting&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GPlus.jpg\" align=\"left\">After Google had to admit a data leak&nbsp; on its social network Google+ API,&nbsp; Google+ is discontinued for private users in August 2019. Google+ will be continue only to run internal for Google employees.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ben Smith from Google has published the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/technology\/safety-security\/project-strobe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+<\/a>, describing more details. Also The Wallstreet Journal (WSJ) has a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LO7w2FHQoy\" target=\"_blank\">big story<\/a> about that. In brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google found a vulnerability within it's Google+ API used by round about 500 Android apps, that allowed third party developers to access private G+ user data of potentially 500,000 accounts.<\/li>\n<li>The vulnerability has been there since 2015 and has been closed in March 2018, but Google can't say, if private data has been pulled. Access logs are stored only for 2 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Google decided not to inform governements and the public about that potential data breach, due to the negative effect, that the Facebook Cambridge Analyctica data scandal have had. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a consequence, Google has limited access from apps via the API to Google+, and after a transition period of 10 months, Google+ will be closed for private users on August 2018. Further detail may be found within the articles linked above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Google had to admit a data leak&nbsp; on its social network Google+ API,&nbsp; Google+ is discontinued for private users in August 2019. Google+ will be continue only to run internal for Google employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1319],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}