Compare tools that check sharing on one Google account, and see why an AI assistant with a Drive connector answers a different question.

The Google Drive audit log shows who viewed, downloaded and shared your files. Here is where to find it, which five events to watch, and how to turn it into alerts.

I pointed my own Drive auditing tool at my own Drive and found 204 publicly-linked files, including my 2014 tax returns. Here's the free manual audit any signed-in user can run without an admin console, and the four gaps it can't close.

When a compliance audit lands, the scramble is always the same: no one can quickly show who has access to sensitive files, how long data lingers, or what happens when someone leaves. Here's how to audit your Google Drive sharing permissions before an assessor does — and turn a stressful scramble into a routine check.