Google brings together all the privacy controls in one place – Daily Mail

Google today announced that it brings together all the privacy controls and security of all services in one place.

Through “My account” , which is the name of the panel of centralized management, you can manage your security and privacy preferences for services like Gmail , the search engine Youtube , Chrome , Google Maps or Google + , among others.

The Google product manager Andreas Tuerk told Efe that these changes seek to facilitate the access and management of those controls , give them more visibility and also increase user awareness about privacy .

Tuerk said that although users are convinced that their data should be private and be accessible to them only, then there are few who believe have control over them.
“We think we can improve the situation significantly,” he added.

All options, information provided and collected controls “My account” were previously available to users, but in different spaces

This unique panel will consist of three pillars:.. access and security, personal information and privacy and account preferences

will be available both for users that have accounts Google as for those who do not but want to access, for example, your search history, who want to set up your advertising preferences or request Google not register your activity at all .

For those who have an account at Google section of “access and security” has to do with passwords, two-step verification, account recovery, suspicious activity alerts, notifications and activity associated with the account devices and applications connected to the same sites.

“personal information and privacy” can know what privacy controls are active or not, to know the personal information given, configure ads, access to account history and control its content.

Finally, account preferences are no controls language and voice, data stored and the possibility of eliminating or just certain services of Google.

From “My account” the user can download all their data platforms to take them outside to Google .

In addition to this panel, the technology company today launched a website where answers to various questions about privacy and data protection as what personal data collected and for what purpose.