Top senators dig into Google following its 'troubling' handling of user data exposure

Three senior Republican senators on Thursday asked Google to disclose more information about the leadership team’s decision not to publicly admit for months that data from approximately 500,000 users had been shared with external developers.

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune and two subcommittee chairmen, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, told Google CEO Sundar Pichai they found his company’s handling of the Google+ incident to be “troubling” and were “especially disappointed” a company official did not share the discovery during a recent visit to Capitol Hill.