How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
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How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
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#2Link is a little buried in the article: https://myactivity.google.com/
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#3Link is a little buried in the article: https://myactivity.google.com/
The controls: https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization
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#4Is there an automated way to get it to self-destruct sooner? Like every 12 or 24 hours?
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#5Weren't a lot of people on Twitter complaining that this is basically insufficient? Most of the information about you that can be profitably mined to create "insights" about you expire in less than a month, these people claim. By having Google auto-delete them in three months, it could provide some peace of mind to you, but it doesn't really affect Google's ability to target you in ads.
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#7> For those who don’t want Google to create a record of their location history at all, there’s a switch for that. On the My Activity page, click Activity controls and scroll to Location history and turn the switch to the off position.
Yes, that's what I do. But then Google Maps on the phone nags you constantly that it should be on.
Removing the nagging would be an immense improvement and proof of commitment to privacy on Google's part.
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#8Is there an automated way to get it to self-destruct sooner? Like every 12 or 24 hours?
You're right Odysseus that would be awesome
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#9Only flaw I see with this and stuff like FB saying they "deleted" your account is:
"It's deleted" is (or could be) another term for "You can't see it anymore, but it's there somewhere"
Haven't gone into ToS, but regardless, there's no way we can determine if it's really gone.
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#10Weren't a lot of people on Twitter complaining that this is basically insufficient? Most of the information about you that can be profitably mined to create "insights" about you expire in less than a month, these people claim. By having Google auto-delete them in three months, it could provide some peace of mind to you, but it doesn't really affect Google's ability to target you in ads.
I don't think that's what Google is trying to advertise with this, the threat model is "I don't want google having 10+ years of my browsing history in case they are compromised or some G employee goes looking through my history". My point is that it isn't misleading, of course they're not going to intentionally harm their Ad business unless you really go though the trouble: https://youtu.be/NQ6-DP6DIiU