Extract from Douglas MacMillan and Robert McMillan’s article “Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public”
Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
