What Does AI Mean for the Future of Work and Navigating Mergers in the Workplace

Last week Google announced the existence of an API bug for Google+ that allowed third-party app developers to access the data of users who had granted permission, and their friends that hadn’t. Reports claim that up to 500,000 accounts could have potentially been affected, with up to 438 different third-party applications having had access to private information thanks to the bug. Users’ full names, email addresses, birth dates, gender, profile photos, locations, occupation and relationship status were potentially exposed in the breach.

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