Secure Your Google History

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Link---> How to delete your Google Browsing History before new policy

With just a week to go before Google changes to its new privacy policy that allows it to gather, store and use personal information, users have a last chance to delete their Google Browsing History, along with any damning information therein.

Tech News Daily reports that once Google's new unified privacy policy takes effect all data already collected about you, including search queries, sites visited, age, gender and location will be gathered and assigned to your online identity represented by your Gmail and YouTube accounts. After the policy takes effect you are not allowed to opt out without abandoning Google altogether. But now before the policy takes effect, you have the option of deleting your Google Web History by modifying your settings so that Google is unable to associate data collected about you with your Gmail or YouTube accounts.

Tech News Daily reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that advocates for online privacy, says: "Search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more."

EFF advises all Google users to delete their web history.

Meanwhile, Center for Digital Democracy has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the Commission to sue Google to stop the policy change. Tech News Daily reports FTC can impose fines up to $16,000 per day for violation.

Daily Mail reports that deleting your browsing history before March 1 when Google's new privacy policy comes into effect will limit Google's ability to track and record your every move online.

The process is simple. Follow the steps below:

1. Go to the google homepage and sign into your account.
2. Click the dropdown menu next to your name in the upper-right hand corner of your screen.
3. Click accounts settings
4. Find the "Services section"
5. Under "Services" there is a sub-section that reads "View, enable, disable web history." Click the link next to it that reads: "Go to Web History"
6. Click on "Remove all Web History"

When you click on "Remove all Web History," your Google Web History is "Paused." What this means is that while Google will continue gathering and storing information about your web history it will make the data anonymous, that is, Google will not associate the information with your online accounts and will therefore be unable to send you customized search results.

Google's ability to gather personalized information about you by assigning data to your Gmail and YouTube accounts will remain "Paused" till you click "Resume."

 

[SlowBoyMoto]

Some good info here, thank you, I heard about this in the news today as well.

 

[ogre]

lol, apparently i did that awhile ago, i haz no hissteriez.

 

[Fastfrog007]

Done and done, thanks Daniel.

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[zukracer]

yeah mine says turn on web history or no thanks, you can guess which one I clicked

 

[bigron]

Done and thank you

 

[Busa1166]

Found it and done just not to sure if that is a good or bad, kinda like when they find me videos I would be interested in on youtube. Is that gone now ???

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Aaaaargh... You mean they know I've been looking at 'busas in the buff' and 'fat round busas'? nooooo.

 

[VIPER]

Folks they been gathering information on you for a while without your knpwledge. So ya delete your history but its already too late. you are already in the database. This will stop them from getting anymore though. Lastly those who do this it doesnt stop them from gathering the information. It stops them from being able to link it to your google account. They still have all the info just not your name.

 

[RussellJ]

Done and done, thanks Daniel.

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I don't even want to know the things your search history contained.... uke:

 

[georgiabusa_05]

Mine already showed paused, but I deleted all anyway.

 

[BusaBret]

All my browsing is sunshine and rose petals

Thanks for the link. Will take care of when I get home. I hate working Saturday's.:down:

From my dunce stool :cookoo:

 

[skydivr]

Since the only dealings I have with google is thru Youtube, I had to get to this thru a roundabout method. According the the page I'm on, my web history is not turned on, therefore I don't have a "delete".....

 

[Flicka]

It's good to see that this was already turned off for some of you. Mine was runnin' like a freight train since 2006...

 

[skydivr]

I never drank the google cool-aide.....

 

[BlondeOnaBusa]

Mine was on Now it's off.

Thanks for the info Daniel.

 

[card16969]

they actually have a group after them for violation or privacy act blah blah blah...

 

[lankeeyankee]

Ever since 911 there is no privacy.

If you want privacy... throw away your.
PC
Cell Phone
Debt and Credit Cards

 

[JGGUNS]

Ever since 911 there is no privacy.

If you want privacy... throw away your.
PC
Cell Phone
Debt and Credit Cards

Then I couldn't look at porn, text while I drive, and buy a bunch of crap I can't pay for.

 

[JINKSTER]

i don't know if it makes a dif but...i never "sign in"..never have...never will..i just use the search/map/earth services etc..but who knows these days..and at my age who cares..if the men in black come for me?..i get free housing, free medical, free dental and can even get free college education..don't even hafta board up for hurricanes. LOL!