Would you like to know which files and folders in your Google Drive are shared with other users and what kind of access permissions they have on your files? Google Drive, unfortunately, doesn’t offer an easy option for you to figure out who you are sharing the files with either inside or outside your organization. These users could be your contacts, someone within your Google Apps domain or some of the shared files could be public meaning they are available to anyone on the web who have the link (URL) to the file. You may have a number of documents, spreadsheets and other files in your Google Drive that are accessible to other users. You can set the access permissions to either view (read only) or edit (read & write). For instance, if you are to send a large file, you can upload the file to Google Drive and share it in view-mode with the recipient.
You can not only control who has access to your Google Drive files but can also assign the level of access they have on the shared files. Google Apps users have the option to share files and folders within the organization while restricting access to anyone outside the domain.
You can share your documents with specific people or you can make them public and anyone on the Internet can view the shared files. The files and folders in your Google Drive are private by default until you decide to share them. Published in: GSuite - Google Drive - privacy
