Pressure has mounted on Saudi Arabia since prominent Saudi journalist and critic of Saudi policies, went missing

The letter was reported earlier by The Intercept, a news website

The search-engine giant shut down the consumer version of Google+ and has tightened its data sharing policies

The Silicon Valley giant shut down its Google+ and fixed a bug exposing private data in as many as 500,000 accounts

A Google spokesman said applications such as Google Maps and Google Earth drew on images from external sources

The social network failed to gain meaningful traction after being launched in 2011 as a challenge to Facebook

Over claims it had collected sensitive data from more than 4 million iPhone users

That would make it easier to track someone’s internet searches

To test the ability of Project Stream technology

Republicans want to question Google about whether its search algorithms are influenced by human bias