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.
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Shed, and if you never registered for either? then what?
lucky you, I guess!
LOL ! right on.
I seriously keep my registrations to a minimum. I was a comp geek back in the day and always wondered when this shit would come to roost.
OK, so you delete everything before this policy takes place. Then what? Never use a google search again?
Pimp, I’d say do not search while logged in to your google account. I’m not sure if that will help, but it makes intuitive sense.
I was wondering about this. But do they somehow tie it to your account anyway even though you are not logged in?
They might, via IP address?
Good google alternative search engines that do not track your usage…
http://www.ixquick.com
and
http://www.duckduckgo.com
I wonder if the turn off or pause mode requires cookies, that will almost certainly be deleted by any reasonable security software scan.
Also- Logically someone concerned about privacy would have two PCs at the desk. One PC is used for business or any use where you are logged in with a name you want to protect. The second PC is for general surfing and user name accounts used for that purpose. If you have an “other life” it should be on another PC.
btw on my smartphone I am signed in as a gentleman from the UK. “Kevin” has never logged in on my other PCs. Despite this, I suspect the Android has figured out my real identity.
Delete the hardporn midget gay firetruck vid links from being tied to your gmail account, or be fucked by the system forever.