Google on Friday said it continues to focus on bringing in new features to empower users “to remain in control of their online experience”, amid rising concerns globally around privacy and security of user data.

“Google has doubled down on our commitment to provide best-in-class privacy settings and controls across all of our products and services,” said Keith Enright, Google’s Chief Privacy Officer.

“We’ve made significant investments in getting this right... (we) ensure that our products are innovated continuously and that they reflect new and improved features to empower users to remain in control of their online experience,” Enright said.

He added that some of the steps taken in this aspect include providing one-tap access to Google accounts across major products and services, and extending incognito mode to products such as Search and Maps.

“We recognise that we have an obligation to have the strongest possible policies and procedures that govern the access to and the sharing of data with third-party developers. Last year, we announced a number of policy updates regarding a developer’s access to data, which further restricted the ability of information to be shared,” he said.

Enright said the company is now making additional changes that will mandate developers to request access to only the data that is necessary for the implementation of features in their Chrome extensions.

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