WTF?! Google's New Policy On Shared Search History.
Feb 22, 2012 4:01 PM
Tags:According to Google's new privacy policy unification, all the searches I’ve made, and all the sites I’ve visited will be combined with several other Google products like my Google Plus account and YouTube account. That blows.
” When you sign up for a Google Account, we ask you for personal information. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Google services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.”
And this part is key: “March 1, 2012 is when the new Privacy Policy and Google Terms of Service will come into effect. If you choose to keep using Google once the change occurs, you will be doing so under the new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.”
How to avoid this? Thankfully you just need to follow a few simple steps to erase and turn off your search history. See the article below, which outlines 4 steps on how to pause/delete your Google Web History.
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Best,
Jason
