It’s highly likely that Google is running this offer to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2016, something which Google celebrated past year as well with the exact same 2GB Drive space giveaway. However, we recommend that you make use of this opportunity and actually take a moment to reconsider your Google account security settings.
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Once those steps are complete, Google will add the 2GB of storage.
To begin the security check up, users need to go to the “My account” page and click the “Get Started” button. The second step that Google wants you to make before it extends your free storage quota by 2GB is to review your connected device.
Google is giving away 2 GB of free Google Drive storage to anyone who performs a security check up on their account.
Gmail has always supported encryption in transit using TLS, and will automatically encrypt your incoming and outgoing emails if it can.
On the occasion of Safer Internet Day, Google announced in its blog that it would be making changes in way it is safeguarding it users. The whole shebang probably takes a minute, if that.
Head on over to Google and proceed with the very short brief security update.
The company said past year that it would strengthen the security measures and identify emails that arrive over a not encrypted connection. Google will also be driving multiple initiatives to drive awareness about online safety among Indian Internet users.
It’s estimated that 900 million people use Gmail and other products that require storage space and almost 25% of American’s use Gmail at work each day.
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To claim your storage space, simply follow the link to Google’s Security Checkup. Every year, Safer Internet Day addresses a single topic to focus attention on, this year it’s “Play your part for a better internet”, reminding everyone that we all have a role to play. Now with the latest security settings you add your phone number, which will act as a recovery number in case you are locked out of your Google account.
