SAN FRANCISCO – Google has revealed a new feature available to everyone whocan have sensitive emails destroy themselves as preset if Confidential Modeis enabled in Gmail.
The updated feature, which Google announced earlier this year, has becomeavailable to all its Gmail users, including both web-based or mobile phonecustomers, according to the latest support web pagelinkofthe US tech giant.
“You can send messages and attachments with Gmail’s Confidential Mode tohelp protect sensitive information from unauthorized access,” Google said.
Confidential Mode prevents recipients from forwarding an email to otherpeople, copying or pasting anything from its contents, downloading themessage or printing it.
When Confidential Mode is set on, users can decide how long an email existsbefore it deletes itself from a recipient’s inbox, and the sender-definedexpiration date ranges from one day to five years.
Google also allows users to revoke access by opening a confidential emailand selecting “Remove access” to stop the recipient from viewing the emailbefore the expiration date.