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		</div><p>Google is shutting its underwhelming Plus social network for regular users, following the disclosure of a flaw discovered in March that exposed personal information of up to 500,000 people.</p>
<p>The announcement came in a Monday blog post, which was Google’s first public description of the privacy bug.</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, said Google deliberately avoided disclosing the problem at the time, in part to avoid drawing regulatory scrutiny.</p>
<p>The Google Plus flaw could have allowed 438 external apps to scoop up user names, email addresses, occupations, gender and age without authorisation.</p>
<p>According to Ben Smith, Google Vice President of Engineering, &#8220;the bug meant that apps also had access to Profile fields that were shared with the user, but not marked as public.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also said that the data &#8220;s limited to static, optional Google+ Profile fields including name, email address, occupation, gender and age&#8221; and does not include other data that may have been posted of connected to Google+ or anything other service.</p>
<p>The company says it did not find evidence that any of the affected personal information was misused. It says that is one reason it delayed disclosing the problem</p>
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