Big Brother is getting closer, but you can slow him down.
How to delete your Google Browsing History before new policy
By JohnThomas Didymus
Feb 24, 2012 in Internet
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With just [a few hours, now] 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," a message appears that says " Web History
is Paused." What this means is that while Google will
continue gathering and storing information about your web history it
will make all data anonymous, that is, Google will not
associate your Web History 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."
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/320137#ixzz1notBmOrK
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/320137
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Have a great day,
Tommy
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