Gmail will facilitate the management of your personal data

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Google will offer easier access to certain “smart” features of its Google Chat, Meet and Gmail services.

Users will thus be able to more easily configure the use of their personal data by the firm, reports

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Concerning Gmail, the “smart features” concerned are as follows: selective sorting of incoming mail, “smart compose” which helps in writing a message, cards summarizing certain key information (flight, train ticket or package to be received) and finally the automatic extraction of data for the creation of events in the calendar.

A clearer choice according to Google

It is already possible to activate or deactivate all these functions in Gmail.

“What is new is a clearer choice on the processing of data that makes it possible,” Google says on its blog.

Users will therefore be able to make a more informed choice about the use of their personal data by the American firm.

In another window, the user can authorize or not the transfer of data collected in Gmail, Chat and Meet to other Google services.

This extraction is usually used to create reminders, display reservations and other features.

Each option can thus be activated or deactivated.

At any time, it will be possible to go to the service settings to backtrack.

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