Google exposed personal data of almost 500,000 and didn't disclose it

A bug in Google+ exposed the personal data of nearly 500,000 people and Google chose not to disclose it out of fears of regulatory pressure. 

That's the stunning revelation in a new report in The Wall Street Journal.

The bug, which went undiscovered from 2015 until March of this year, according to The WSJ, allowed developers to access personal data from the connections of people who had installed their app, even if those people didn't give permission for their information to be accessed.

Upon discovering the bug, Google patched it, but opted not to disclose it to the public out of fear of regulatory pressure and unfavorable comparisons to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica debacle. Read more...