Last week Google I/O 2015 took place with a great torrent of news arriving with all the news that will have to do with Android for this year. From what is one's own Android M and its commitment to performance or what are new apps like Google Photos or the news concerning Google Now. A whole declaration of interests by Google to show that it is the technology company of the moment and that it is going strong like Estopa's own song.
Si He almost left us on the canvas with all that news in Keynote by Sundar Pichai, today he returns to the fray with a series of tools that he offers the user for security and privacy. A fundamental issue for today where we are usually used to using our credentials in different services with our Google account. For this reason, we can access a new website to have the maximum possible control in this regard.
Control the privacy of your account
Google has introduced a new way to manage security in an effort to help the user to have more control over how information is shared. The new "My Google account" tool offers quick access to security and privacy settings, which allows you to have good control over the information that is provided from Google accounts, what type of advertising is seen and much more.
What "My Google Account" offers
- Take control with a series of privacy and security checks with a simple guide to go through the most important settings in those two categories.
- Manage the information that can be used from Google Search, Maps, YouTube and other services that improve your Google experience. For instance, you can activate some settings such as web and app activity, which takes the most relevant and fastest search results, or location history, which activates Google Maps and Google Now to give advice for a faster return home.
- Use the ad settings tool to take control of the ads based on your interests and the searches you have made.
- Control connected apps and websites with your account.
Google is also introducing a new website for easy questions about security and privacy. This will clear up doubts for many users who often do not know what type of data Google may be collecting every day.
A little about "My Google account"
The goal is to control and protect your account, and what better way than to provide the user with all the information it contains. If we know what we are sticking to, we can close and open doors having access to total control and knowledge.
Login and security
Here we can know when was the last time the password was changed, if we have activated the verification in two steps or the options for the recovery of the account such as the secret question, telephone or alternative mail.
The second category is for control which devices have accessed the account and their activity. The third category for connected apps and sites and having full control over them, since we can delete them from right here.
Personal information and privacy
All data related to basic information, account history, ad settings, account overview and content control. Remarkable is the possibility of the search history and the sites you have visited from the locations.
Since the last content control option We can even download the data and make a copy, to even assign a person to download it in case we cannot manage it for a certain time.
Account Preferences
Tu Google Drive storage, account deletion or some services or accessibility are the options that we will find in this last category and that ends everything that has to do with this new series of tools that will come in handy for the management of our Google account.
You can access right now My google account.