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It’s no secret that Google tracks a lot of data about you, from the websites you visit to the videos you watch, the things you’ve searched for, and the places you have visited. Scrubbing this data from your Google account has required you to manually dig into your settings each time. That’s changing soon.
In the next few weeks, Google will be rolling out a feature to users around the world that will let them set this information to be deleted automatically every three or 18 months.
"We work to keep your data private and secure, and we’ve heard your feedback that we need to provide simpler ways for you to manage or delete it," Google said in a blog post published Wednesday.
For now, these controls are only coming to your location history and web and app activity, but it’s likely that they’ll come to more of your data history at some point.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday May 04 2019, @09:54PM (4 children)
Agreed. However, if I had an account, or they gave me the option without logging in, I'd still use the feature, just in case it actually does something. If it doesn't, someone needs to whistle blow that down the line. Or, ideally, right now.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Sunday May 05 2019, @12:46PM (3 children)
Using the feature is useful--for flagging you as a malcontent who will be dealt with when the global corporate state purges resistance.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by acid andy on Sunday May 05 2019, @01:11PM (2 children)
True, though I rather suspect most of us Soylentils have already done (and not done) more than enough to be categorized as such. Simply the fact I won't use Farcebook would likely count against me.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:48PM (1 child)
I took an approach Heinlein recommended in his story Friday, wherein it's safer to have an innocuous, neutral presence than an absence for the reason you stated. There was a Soylentil in the early days who was so offended by that that she unfriended me (marked me "foe").
It was astonishing at the time, but now it comforts me whenever i worry that I'm too strident to know that there are those much further out on the limb than I am.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:36PM
I just figure I've enjoyed life this long as a free man. If someone insists on putting an end to that some day sooner or later, at least I stuck, mostly, to my principles. The pleasures in this life are finite.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?