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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: 4, Informative) by zeigerpuppy on Sunday May 05 2019, @01:14AM (1 child)
I rooted and installed a firewall on an Android phone a while back. Then I blocked access to google.com domain. The phone became effectively unusable. Lots of apps failed to function and even basic account functions that had nothing to do with google were glitchy. Standard Android with google tools is basically a huge data hole because the API layers all go through google.
That's when I switched to Sailfish OS.
For email, web and filesync I use privacy respecting companies like https://greenant.net [greenant.net]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @01:50AM
But with no identity associated with the connections? Sure, it can connect to google servers a lot. If 2000 phones not logged into google are doing that, even better.