Your Google account can store a lot of information about the websites you visit or searches you make. The My Activity tool allows you to manage and delete that data with a few taps. Using one of the ...

The offer comes right when people are thinking about how they'll pay for holiday shopping and heating bills. But how much ...

On the Google My Activity page, one of the very first controls shown is Web & App Activity. Google will soon break up that setting with a new “Workspace search history” preference. Update 5/19: After ...

Google is offering users a new way to try and safeguard their privacy, by providing an option to automatically delete logs of Web & App Activity as well as Location History data after a specific ...

To take full advantage of Google services, Web & App Activity and Location History often have to be enabled on an account and device. At the same time, the company has been working to give end users ...

A new blog post by Facebook yesterday — aptly timed to coincide with Data Privacy Day 2020 — re-introduced their Off-Facebook Activity tool. “As of today, our ...

Starting on March 29, Google is changing its infamous “Web & App Activity” controls for paid users of Google Workspace. That feature is now being split up into two settings, one still called “Web & ...

Google will soon let users automatically delete location history and other private data in rolling intervals of either three months or 18 months. "Choose a time limit for how long you want your ...

It’s no secret that unless you are very careful about what you opt-in to, Google keeps a very detailed record of your location history and a log of the web sites you visit in Chrome and apps you use.

Google wants to give people an easier way to delete their personal data. On Wednesday, the Alphabet-owned company said it’s adding auto-delete tools for location history data, as well as web browsing ...

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