How to view and disable applications that have access to your Google-account

Find out which applications are using your account data and block unwanted.

After incident with Facebook Many are paying the applications connected to the social network, much more attention. But do not forget about another technology giant, which also collects all sorts of information about your weight - on Google.

If you have a Google Account, then you know how convenient using it to enter into various sites and apps. Often it does not even have to just fill out a registration form - just press a button, and you're in the service.

But in this way you provide service information from your account. This may be name, sex, country of residence and much more. Of course, these data you can enter and manual registration. But not necessarily.

Therefore, as in the case of Facebook, will not be superfluous to check at what applications have access to your information. To do this from a computer, go to Google account page and in the "Safety and input" select the third point - "Applications that have access to the account."

Click "Manage Applications" and see all the services that are used by your data. Click on unnecessary or unreliable application, select "Cancel Access" and click "OK". This is enough to prevent access to the service account.

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