{"id":934,"date":"2013-01-14T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2020-02-26T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:55:30","slug":"10-ways-to-manage-privacy-in-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/10-ways-to-manage-privacy-in-google\/934\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Manage Privacy in Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google\u2019s social networking site, Google+, continues to grow in popularity. But as with all social media sites, over-sharing your personal information is easy to do on Google+. Use these 10 tips to help you navigate the murky privacy<\/a> waters of this latest social media platform:<\/p>\n

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  1. Profile Management<\/strong>: Use the profile editing hub to establish what information you do and don\u2019t want to share with the world. By selecting different privacy<\/a> settings you can share everything with everyone, certain information with groups of your choosing and you can keep some information visible to just you. Click the \u201cView profile as\u2026\u201d button to see how these different settings look in practice. If you don\u2019t want to be found by visitors, scroll to the bottom of the Edit page to disable \u2018search visibility.\u2019<\/li>\n
  2. Use Google\u2019s Privacy<\/a> Center<\/strong>: The Privacy<\/a> Center centralizes the privacy<\/a> features of most Google products, and Google\u2019s Family Safety Center and the General Privacy<\/a> Policy are particularly useful because they tell you what kind of information Google plans to mine from G+.<\/li>\n
  3. Circle Management<\/strong>: Circles in Google+ allow you to choose which groups of friends, family, coworkers, etc. sees which things you share. You could make everything visible to everyone, but then you\u2019d kind of be missing the point of Google+. And anyhow, you probably don\u2019t want your parents looking at everything you share with your friends.<\/li>\n
  4. Network Visibility<\/strong>: Your Circles are never visible to the outside world, but by default your friends are. If you want to change that, go to the Privacy<\/a> tab, then Sharing and click \u2018Edit network visibility.\u2019 From there simply uncheck whoever you wish to hide.<\/li>\n
  5. To Group Message or Not to Group Message<\/strong>: Group messaging is built into the Google+ mobile app that falls somewhere between texting and Twitter. But be careful about how you manage your circles and check carefully before you send a group message \u2013 otherwise you could end up messaging your entire G+ network about what happened last night, not just last night\u2019s Circle.<\/li>\n
  6. G+PS<\/strong>: Like Facebook, Google+ lets you tell people where you are when you share something. For those who don\u2019t wish to give that type of information out \u2013 and geolocation is of great interest to hackers \u2013 this is an easy feature to disable in the Settings menu.<\/li>\n
  7. +1 Privacy<\/a><\/strong>: When you \u201cLike\u201d something on Facebook, everybody sees it. Choosing \u201c+1\u201d on Google+ is the equivalent of the Facebook \u201cLike\u201d but with the ability \u2013 based on Circles \u2013 to control who sees it. You should know, though, that while you have control over which of your followers sees your +1s, Google retains the right to collect and share aggregate information of all +1s with its advertisers.<\/li>\n
  8. Sneaky Pseudonyms<\/strong>: One of the many similarities that Google+ shares with Facebook is that it does not approve of its members using false identities for their profiles. But, like with Facebook, this is easy enough to get around if a pseudonym is credible \u2013 aka, not over the top \u2013 and is connected to a legit email address.<\/li>\n
  9. Sharing \u2018Links\u2019<\/strong>: G+ lets you use its \u201cLinks\u201d feature to associate other facets of your online life \u2013 Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, your personal blog, etc. \u2013 under its umbrella. You can control who sees your links through Circles.<\/li>\n
  10. Instant Sharing<\/strong>: Google+ makes it easy \u2013 probably too easy, for some \u2013 to share photos. That\u2019s because if you use a Google Android device and take a picture on it, your photos are instantly uploaded to a private Picasa web folder for potential future sharing. Instant Upload is easy enough to disable \u2013 just go into the G+ app, click on Menu, then Settings and at the top of the screen uncheck \u201cInstant Upload.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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