Google is rolling out a new security feature for Google+ that enables organizations to have private conversations.
Google has come under the scanner earlier for breaching privacy norms especially for its Street View feature, but now it is offering privacy to its users albeit on a smaller scale. The web giant is rolling out new restricted communities feature for its Google+ service to help organizations have private conversations.
"You can decide if your restricted community will be open to everyone at your company or private, joinable by invitation only," explained Michael Cai, Google+ Product Manager, in a company'sblog post. "While administrators can set restricted communities as the default for your organization, you can always choose to create communities open to people outside of your domain, so clients, agencies or business partners can join in the discussion."
The conversations of the restricted communities can be hidden from the public search results. The rights to change settings, manage memberships or invite new members will be only with the community owners. Users can share files and videos from Google's cloud storage and Google Drive.
In order to start a new community, users must find the green communities icon in the Google+ home navigation menu and select "create community."
Users will be asked to choose from different options for their new community such as having the community open to all members in the domain or private with selective members and name of the community. The step-by-step detail of creating a new restricted community is listed here on Google's support page.
Google has been focusing a lot on its Google+ service. Last month, the web giant introduced a series of features in its update including full size backup for iOS, photo enhancements with auto-enhance, Snapseed, and auto-awesome.