Safer Internet Day - Google Drive Bonus

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For today's Safer Internet Day Google is promoting a "safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones" by giving you a 2 GB Google Drive bonus for checking your security settings. To be eligible for the bonus, go to this page to verify your current account settings to make sure they are up to date. Although the three simple steps only take a few seconds to review, the storage bonus, unfortunately, does not get applied until around February 28th.

Whether or not you actually use their cloud storage service is still up to you (I'm currently using 0 GB of 115 GB) - but keeping an eye on your Google account logins (including any connected Android or iOS devices) is probably a good idea regardless.

Geolocation is fun! (Score: 1)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-02-13 15:03 (#31DX)

I can't believe they used geo-ip lookup as part of their safety check up. They wildly missed on where my phone and tablet last logged in from. My ISP often assigns an ip address that was once assumed to be in a different section of the country. If I didn't know that, I might have been unnecessarily freaked out. I mean these are nexus devices that have location sharing turned on, and were connected to wifi. Google knows *exactly* where they were, and it wasn't what they reported because the just used geo ip lookups. Dorks.
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