MORE CONTROL OVER YOUR DATA
Google servers house a lot of your personal information,
which is used to serve up targeted ads and a customized
web experience. Not everyone loves that, though, so at
I/O, Google talked up new privacy controls, such as the
ability to schedule automatic deletions of location data.
Android Q will also push reminders about when a third
party is accessing your phone’s location data and let you
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access in Android Q.
Meanwhile, Incognito Mode is coming to Google Maps
and Search, so you’ll be able to pull up directions
without linking the activity to your Google account.
GOOGLE LENS
Google Lens is already pretty impressive, but at I/O, the
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you do searches via your phone’s camera. Take a picture
of text in another language, for example, and Google
Lens will display the translation and overlay it on top of
the original words. The goal is to make it work with
more than 100 languages.
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At I/O, Google
talked up new
privacy
controls, such
as the ability
to schedule
automatic
deletions of
location data.