Google now lets you add friends as contacts for account recovery

The company is adding a new feature called Recovery Contacts, which lets you add your trusted friends or family members as ...

Set up this new Google account recovery feature ASAP - and never get locked out again

A new recovery feature lets you choose trusted friends or family members to verify your identity if you're locked out of your Google account.
Droid Life

Your Google Account and Messages Get New Security Features

Google is rolling out new security features for those using Google Messages, as well as your standard Google account. These ...
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Google Security Feature Now Lets You Phone a Friend to Recover Your Account

Recovery Contacts, which lets a trusted friend verify your identity for you, is just one of Google's new security features.

Losing access to your Google account just got less scary

Google is making account recovery easier with new features to help users get back in through a trusted contact or their phone ...
Lifehacker

Nine Changes You Need to Make to Your Google Security and Privacy Settings

There's no doubt Google is keen to track just about everything you do online and inside its apps, but it's also fair to say the company puts a comprehensive set of security and privacy tools at its ...
The Hill

Google says Gmail security warning is ‘false,’ but here’s how you can increase protection

(NEXSTAR) — Did you see concerning reports this weekend that the password to your Gmail account needed to be changed immediately over concerns of a data breach? Have no fear — Google said that isn’t ...
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7 Google account features most people forget to use

Many of us own a Google account, especially if you frequent the Android ecosystem. We need to link our Google accounts to phone and tablet apps and enable and access the services for different apps.