Many apps and services make it easy to sign up and sign in by using your Google Account. While this is convenient, I use the option a lot, there are always risks associated with giving a third party permission to utilize your Google Account. The biggest risk being that if the third party’s security is compromised, log-in to your Google Account could also be compromised (to clarify, Google does have measures in place to limit this risk, but it’s still a risk). What I do to minimize this risk is to revoke third party access to my Google Account for any service or app that I don’t use on a regular basis.

The directions below walk you through how to manage the permissions that third party services have on your Google Account.

Step 1: Go to https://www.google.com/settings/security (sign into your Google Account if you aren’t logged in).

Step 2: At the top of the page select the “security” tab then under “account permissions” select “view all.”

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Step 3: Click on any of the applications listed to view permissions and to revoke access.

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