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 darkfeline on Sunday May 05 2019, @06:40AM
Uh, if you have a "gmail account", then you have a Google account and you're logging into it regularly.
>Do I have to log in to my Google account to launch this "wipe"?
Yes, but see above. This question confuses me; it sounds like it's suggesting that anyone can wipe the data of an arbitrary Google account without logging into it. While that may make for an interesting thought experiment, that would be problematic for hundreds of reasons.
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