Scrub your Google data on 29 Feb or else!

Wednesday, February 29. 2012

Scrub your Google data on 29 Feb or else!

There is just a few hours to go before Google changes to its new privacy policy to allow it to gather, store and use your personal information, so as a public service we will tell you how to delete all that damning Google Browsing History, as per the EFF:

1. Go to the google homepage and sign into your account.
2. Click the dropdown menu next to your name in the upper-right hand corner of your screen.
3. Click accounts settings
4. Find the "Services section"
5. Under "Services" there is a sub-section that reads "View, enable, disable web history." Click the link next to it that reads: "Go to Web History."
6. Click on "Remove all Web History"

By the way, its not just Google.....

This is a public service announcement. You have been publically served. Do it or you will be served on a platter, as you are the Free Lunch. Thank you.

(Update - as Steve G notes in the comments, if you do not have Web history turned on you are OK- but check tomorrow, I am not certain what will be "opt in auto" then.

Also, I see the EFF are advising you to clear your browser history stacks anyway, and to stay off Google or do searches in browser Incognito modes now)

Posted by Alan Patrick in Identity / Profiles / Trust at 23:02 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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There is no Web History to remove if you never turned it on

#1 Steve G on 2012-02-29 23:54 (Reply)

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