The email tool Googleis perfect for those who want to find a complete e-mail with many complex functions, at the same time, simple and with reasonable storage in the cloud, all without paying anything. However, you have to be very careful with Third-party Gmail on your mobile. Check out why.
Reasons to be careful with Gmail on your Android
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- Access to your device data
The Google company uses the Gmail address as a unique identifier to access Google accounts, which this is usually where most of your data is stored, such as behavior, favorite places, passwords, cards, etc. This is because, to help improve services for you, Google collects this information and links it to your account.
However, these reasons are not worrisome, what can be of concern is if your smartphone device is android. If so, after a Gmail account is connected to your Android, or even in the browser Chrome for mobile devices, all your activities can be linked and accessed remote.
That is, that person who has the email on their cell phone will be able to access all the information stored about you.
- Access to location history
Aside from all your usage activities, a slightly more invasive fact that Gmail keeps about you is your location history. If someone has access to this information, what will be at stake will be your security and privacy. Even though it's not as simple as that, it's data that's easy to access, as soon as another Gmail address is linked to your cell phone.
- Remotely wipe your device
A Google account gives an Android phone owner the ability to remotely wipe data from their phone in case of theft. The name of this Google feature is called Find My Device, in which you can locate where your device is.
In addition to location, there are the tools alarm, erase all cell phone data, lock and power off. Despite being quite useful, you have to be careful if your cell phone has other Gmail addresses linked to it, as it is possible to gain access to all these types of tools through them.
- Recommendation
Therefore, the recommendation of Google employees is to be very careful when adding third-party Gmail addresses to your device, so that they cannot have access to this data. If you have other addresses registered on your cell phone, we recommend that you unlink all these addresses immediately and leave only your personal one.
