Google has launched a service "My Account" for the protection of data users
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Google recently are increasingly accused of gathering information about their users, and we have not been contacted again about this is. In response, the company is making every effort to make the process of data collection, storage and management of user data as open and understandable. The emergence of a new tool called "My Account" was another step in this direction.
«My account"- a new user-data management center, which provides you with a convenient way to change privacy settings, view the collected information, remove unnecessary and even make a backup copy of your data. All of these features were present in the earlier Google, but were scattered in different services and service pages. Now all the most necessary information is gathered in one place, it is much more convenient.
Here is just a brief list of typical tasks that will help you handle the new control center:
- Safety and input. Enabling step verification. Change the password and how to restore it. View a list of connected devices. Managing trusted sites and applications.
- Confidentiality. provide personal information management. Viewing and deleting the history of their locations, searches, video views, and so on. Ads Preferences. Download a complete copy of all the available data to Google about you.
- Account settings. Selecting language preferences, and display options. Increasing the selected disk space. Disabling or complete removal of your account.
An important innovation of the page "My Account", because of which you should see it right now, the emergence of two step wizard, with which you can check your account security settings and privacy of their data. No longer do you have to turn over dozens of screens in search of the necessary boxes or switch - on Google made sure that everything was on hand and provided with detailed instructions.
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