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How to use confidential mode in Gmail to protect sensitive information

8/30/2022

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Gmail includes a handy feature that helps protect sensitive information. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to use Confidential Mode.
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A few years back Google did add a nice feature to Gmail called Confidential Mode that helps protect sensitive information from authorized access. With Confidential Mode, you can set an expiration date and a password for messages and even revoke access any time you choose. And when a recipient receives a confidential message, they cannot forward, copy, print, or download the message.
Requirements
The only thing you'll need to use Confidential Mode is a Gmail account on either the web-based Gmail client or the mobile app (it works on Android and iOS). I'm going to demonstrate using the web-based client, which works on almost any web browser, but the email client works similarly.
How to send an email in Confidential Mode

1. Open Gmail
Open your web browser, head to Gmail, and log in.
2. Compose an email
​Click Compose to open the Gmail compose window. At the bottom of that window, click the padlock-and-clock icon
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3. Configure the Confidential Mode settings
In the resulting pop-up, click the Expiration drop-down and select one day, one week, one month, three months, or five years.
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If you want to add a passcode, click SMS passcode and click Save, which will return you to the Compose window.

4. Compose and send your email
Compose the email as you would normally and then click Send. This will bring up another pop-up, where you'll be asked to type a phone number for the recipient.
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Click Send and your recipient will receive an email with a link to view its contents. When they click the link, a new web browser page will open where they'll need to click a link to be sent the passcode. Once they have the passcode, they enter it in the browser pop-up and click SUBMIT, and they can then view the message.

No matter what type of email account you send the Confidential Mode message to, the recipient will have to open it in a web browser and the content is displayed in such a way that they cannot do anything with it other than read it.
And that's all there is to using Gmail's Confidential Mode. Consider employing this feature for those missives that include sensitive information, so it doesn't wind up in the wrong hands.
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