Google is planning to launch a new online service dubbed "Gdrive", wherein users will be allowed to securely store their PC data online.

The service will allow users to store data such as Office docs, digital music, video clips, and images from their PC hard drives onto the online storage space to be offered by Google.

The stored data will be available for access to users through the Internet on different PCs and mobile phones. It will also be available for sharing files with friends after signing-in with a password, as and when required.

However, the storage space and expansion options being made available to users have not been revealed yet.

The online storage service is no news as rumors about "Gdrive" have been doing the rounds of industry for quite sometime now.

And amidst all this, there are concerns being raised about the privacy of data and copyright issues, because content will be stored online, which can lead to illegal sharing of it.

According to Google though, data privacy has been addressed with the utmost sensitivity, and extensive safeguards have been put in place to protect user data.

"Gdrive" is just a few months away from release.

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