Keeping you safe online is a top priority at Google, especially for the thousands of Googlers who work on privacy and security around the world. Today on Data Privacy Day, were sharing some of the many ways we keep you safe online and across our productsfrom built-in protections to easy tools that keep you in control of your privacy.1. Keep your passwords safePassword Manager in your Google Accou...

Wacom tablets have been collecting data on what apps users open, and its not entirely clear what Wacom is doing with the data. Software engineer Robert Heaton writes in a detailed blog post that he discovered the behavior after setting up his tablet on his new laptop. When Heaton was asked to accept Wacoms privacy policy, he saw a message saying aggregate usage data, technical session information...

California’s new privacy law was years in the making. The law, California’s Consumer Privacy Act or CCPA became law on January 1, allowing state residents to reclaim their right to access and control their personal data. Inspired by Europe’s GDPR, the CCPA is the largest statewide privacy law change in a generation. The […]

In honor of Data Privacy Day, we describe how our new Protected Computing approach technically ensures the privacy and safety of your data.