Google Pay to give users more control over their data

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ Google on Thursday said it will offer users of Google Pay enhanced privacy features, allowing them to take control of their own transaction data. Google Pay is rolling out an update to the app from next week that will provide users with more controls to decide how their Google Pay activity is used to personalise features within the app.

All users will be asked to choose whether they would like to turn the control on or off as soon as they upgrade to the next version of the Google Pay app. “Privacy is already a key priority for us…If you do anything on Google Pay, it stays on Google Pay – and that’s the state today.

“What we are saying now is we are creating new controls for managing your Google Pay activity, even on Google Play. “So if you’re doing something on Google Pay, we want you to be in control of saying – should this activity be used or recorded for use for personalising a feature,” Google Pay vice president – product Ambarish Kenghe told.