Google Now Offers Users More Control on Privacy and Security Settings

On Monday, Google adjusted its privacy and security control for its billion users. On Google website, they released the most commonly asked question about how the company gathers and uses all the enormous amount of information from users.

For a few years, Google allows users to control their privacy setting whether they will allow the web browser to locate their current location or not. This information that users placed on the site is also used for targeted advertising by some companies.

In some cases, users no longer change their privacy setting because it's hard to locate in a web browser with so many tabs and it is also time consuming for some people.

The Tech Giant answers the question about selling of personal data of their clients or if they are feeding information to advertisers. According to Guemmy Kim who acts as the product manager for account controls and setting, that they are changing their approach on privacy and security to avoid doubts from its users.

So Google decided to let users use the My Account that gives them the access to privacy and security check up. Users are in control of showing their personal data to public or hide it in private setting.

Users have been very particular with data control since they are more indulge in putting more personal information in the internet.

In 2013, it was discovered that a classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden, show that the U.S National Security Agency has been working on mass data collection from large tech companies. This has probably traumatize the public, especially that no one has an idea of the thing happening at the system.

Based on the Pew survey, 9 percent of people feel they have no control on the information they give online.

Google privacy and security control includes the increased app permissions for Android where the system does not allow any application to access any data without the user's control. These move from Google gives a sense of security to its users--that at the end of the day, the users are still in control of the data and the system.