New Hub Lets You Tweak Your Google Account Security
New Hub Lets You Tweak Your Google Account Security
Ever try to investigate your Google privacy settings and fall down an Internet wormhole only to come out the other side more confused than ever? You’re not alone.
Google wants to change that. On Monday, it rolled out a new hub for managing your Google privacy settings, as well as a site where you can find answers to privacy and security questions you may have. The new My Account page is designed to be a single place where you can control, protect, and secure your Google account.
From this one hub, you can do things like manage your password, view your account history, change your personal information, and control targeted advertising. The hub also offers privacy and security checkup tools, which will guide you through your most important account settings.
“We’ve all been there at some point or another … You just lost your phone and want to wipe your personal information. You attend an event, and you want to share your photos with some people (but not everyone). You hesitate as you download another app that’s asking for a lot of information,” Google Account Controls and Settings Product Manager Guemmy Kim wrote in a blog post Monday.
“Every day, we make choices that affect our privacy and security online,” Kim continued. “Most people, however, don’t feel they have the right level of control to make these important decisions.”
From My Account, you can also view and control which apps and sites are connected to your account, download an archive of your data from Google products, tweak your accessibility settings, or just flat out delete your account if you so choose.
Alongside the My Account hub, Google has also launched a new sitewhere you can find answers to common privacy and security questions, such as “What data does Google collect? What does Google do with the data it collects? What tools do I have to control my Google experience?”
“We also explain how we show relevant ads without selling your personal information, how encryption and spam filtering help keep your data safe, and how your information helps customize your experience on Google,” Kim wrote.
Meanwhile on the security front, Facebook today announced it is gradually rolling out an “experimental” new security feature that lets people add Open PGP public keys to their profile, which provide end-to-end encryption for notification emails send from Facebook to your email account. The social network said this will “provide greater assurance that the contents of inbound emails are genuine.”
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