Google Meet, Google’s premium video conferencing product is now free for everyone, with availability rolling out over the next coming weeks.
According to a recent announcement, starting from early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to our business and education users.
These features include simple scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference, including an expanded tiled view.
“As of this month, Meet is hosting 3 billion minutes of video meetings and adding roughly 3 million new users every day. And as of last week, Meet’s daily meeting participants surpassed 100 million”, said Google.
With the increase in daily users and the wide accessibility of Google Meet, Privacy and security is vital. Which is why its approach to security is simple: “make products safe by default”, these include:
A strong set of host controls are provided such as the ability to admit or deny entry to a meeting, and mute or remove participants, if needed. Meet meeting codes are complex by default and therefore resilient to brute-force “guessing.” Meet video meetings are encrypted in transit, and all recordings stored in Google Drive are encrypted in transit and at rest.
On mobile, its has a dedicated apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Your Meet data is not used for advertising, and we don’t sell your data to third parties.You can simply access Google Meet if you have an existing Google Account and sign in at meet.google.com to get started. Or you can set up a Google Account in just a few minutes!
The Company also mentioned that for now meeting times will be unlimited, but from September 2020 there will be a 60 minute limit on the free version.For more information and upcoming updates visit The Google Meet Support centre
