Google Drive has upped its security features – now, you can rest assured that nobody will be able to download, share, or simply copy your personal information.
Google Drive is one of the most used cloud storage services – along with DropBox, and Amazon’s service – and reassuring its user-base that their personal information is safe and sound can cement the big G’s position in the industry.
The company has released an Information Rights Management tool that can be accessed from Google Drive.
What does this new Information Rights Management mean? Well, basically, you can remove the ability to download, copy, print, and even share for certain files on your Drive – of course, you can choose this option to be widely available for the entirety of your information.
Developers have the possibility of implementing this option in their apps with an API.
After you choose to disable the feature that allow others to copy, download, and etc. your personal info, you’ll receive a notification that entails that your export options have been disabled in the File Menu.
Of course, if someone wants to steal your information, he eventually will – given the means, tools, and skill necessary. But we always welcome more layers of security, even though they might give users a fake state of being safe.
The feature has rolled out today, but it’s only available for Web users. Mobile users will probably have to wait a little bit longer for it to be implemented – it will most definitely come to mobile, but at the current moment, we don’t know when.
In 2014, a work-around was found that let users, who had an url link to a Google Drive account folder, to wreak havoc. Google fixed it quite quickly, but who’s there to say that it can’t happen again in a different form?
Google is preparing for the future. Adding more layers of security can garner a lot of popularity, and shift some users from its direct competitors to join their service.
Are you more keen on using Google Drive now? Or are you going to stick with your current cloud storage service provider? Tell us in the comments section below!