Google is planning to give its mobile users more control over what information applications can access, people familiar with the matter said.

The new security measures were brought in with Lollipop and it is largely considered to be decent additions and ones which highlighted Google’s continued focus on security.

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The report lists that Google is preparing to detail information on how android will offer users a much better and increased level of control over apps. More specifically, the permissions apps seek and the information they are given.

Google plans to implement the new controls in aspects like images, location, contact information and prime examples of the type of content which will be better managed and controlled in the future. This element of permission control, is, of course, one of the issues which seem most prevailing in recent times with many reports detailing how permissions of apps are becoming increasingly problematic.

The Mountain View, California-based company last year simplified how people are informed about what an app is accessing. Users decide whether the app can be downloaded. The new settings would give users the option to pick and choose what an app can access.

Google is adding features to its mobile services as it seeks to attract users who increasingly are going online via their wireless gadgets. Android had 81 percent of the global smartphone market in 2014 while Apple's iOS had 15 percent.

However, they do state that Google are planning to unveil the inner workings of the new control mechanisms at this year’s I/O event, which is set to take place at the end of the month. As such, the presumption is that these new control mechanisms will be unveiled along with the recently reported Android M update which is also now largely expected to also be unveiled at the event.

Gina Scigliano, a spokeswoman for Google, declined to comment.

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