Which Apps Have Access to Your Google Account & Steps to Remove Them
Privacy is a major concern in the IT industry. Most of the Big IT companies promises to maintain privacy in their applications and websites, but a recent Facebook scandal comes in the report. Facebook is allowing third-party developers to access your data and ignoring privacy policy. Earlier this week a report claims that Google is also allowing other developers to access emails, even with privacy and security policy with its user. Accordingly, the report says that Google allows third-party developers to scan user’s inbox when you previously signed up to their websites. So users need to know which apps are accessing your Gmail account profile details and how can you stop them to access Gmail profile details.
Google start an automatic processing to reduce spamming and phishing, this process does not use email content for serving ads. This automatic process caused someone to speculate mistakenly that Google reads your Email. Google said and assure that no one reads your email at Google except in specific cases like investigating bugs or abuse. So in this post, you will get to know which apps have access to your Gmail account and how can you stop them to access your details.
Types of Apps Permission to Access Account
- Full Account access: This allows the developer to change details, passwords, delete your account. Third-party app developer does not ask for this permission. It is dangerous to allow the third-party app with this permission.
- Read and Write Access: This permission allows apps to read and write in your account, this kind of permission asked by third party email apps, which can read, send and delete your email. You can allow this if you trust the company. Otherwise, do not grant read and write permission to any app.
- Basic information: This permission allows to view your basic information. Basic information includes your email ID, name, etc. This permission allows the third-party app to connect with your Google sign-in feature and view your information. So before giving permission to any third-party app, first ensure the trust-ability of the particular app and the grant permission.
Check Devices, Websites, and Apps connected with Your Google Account
If you are not confirmed, which app or website use your Google account details. You can view your Gmail access log by visiting the security checkup page of Google. Google recommends you to use this page to control access app using your data and linked to your account. This dashboard allows users functionality to revoke Gmail login from inoperative devices, show sign-ins on Web and mobile. Also, you can easily remove apps connected to Gmail.
Steps to Check Devices, Websites and apps using your Google Account
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- Open the security checkup page
- Log in with your account you want to check
- Now you can use four options to check the security
Check Apps Have Google Access and Remove Untrusted Apps
You can additionally set permissions to websites and apps by Google page and you can see apps with Gmail access. Logging in to this page provides you the details of all the websites and apps have access with Gmail. You can remove app access to Gmail, which you do not trust. This removes all the access permissions of your Google account including Google Contacts, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, Google+ and more. The user of Gmail will not expect from Google to allow to use their data from third-party developers and avoid the privacy and security policy. Let’s find the steps to remove apps which are accessing your account details. If you want to know how to remove apps connected to Gmail perform the steps listed below:
How to Remove Apps Connected to Gmail
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- Open the Google App page
- Log In with your account
- Click on the App or website
- Click on Remove Access to stop access
Final Words!!
In this article, we have discussed third party apps have access to your Gmail in your control. Google allows the third-party developer to use your Gmail data or not. You can see how many devices, website, and apps connected to your Gmail. You can view apps using your Google data and remove untrusted apps from accessing your account data.
