Google is closing Google+ and overhauling privacy rules after discovering exposure of user data

Google will close most of its failing social media platform Google+ and implement several new privacy measures after discovering that hundreds of thousands of users potentially had their personal data exposed because of a previously undisclosed software bug, the company announced Monday.The bug, discovered in March during an internal company review, could have allowed outside software developers — or people posing as outside developers — to learn the names, email addresses, occupatio