Google expands Safety Centre, to support 9 Indian languages

NEW DELHI: Google has expanded its ‘Safety Centre’ aimed at providing users with more control over the data they share with the tech giant across its various services.

The newly expanded Safety Centre platform will also provide resources and information on topics like data security. It will be made available in nine Indian languages — Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

While the company, over the years, has made available many tools to help users safeguard their data and privacy, Safety Centre will be like a one-stop shop for information and adjusting preferences on how users allow Google to use their data.

“What we have done through the Safety Centre is demystified a lot of the myths – like Google selling user data – by giving the user the power to see the data we are accessing…We have said what is the data that Google is accessing, why is Google accessing that data and how is it utilising that data,” Google India Director of Trust and Safety Sunita Mohanty said.

She added that various information like the user’s name, date of birth, location, browser history and others is clearly laid out and users can choose to download and delete the data if they do not want Google to use it.

This can be done for specific periods of time as well as for specific products like Maps or Search. (AGENCIES)

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