Google can now automatically delete your activity data
News Web Services / / December 19, 2019
You can choose how long the stored information about your actions before the company erases it.
By default, Google stores all the data about which sites you visit and what places go. It's possible shut offBut if the company can not give you the right recommendations. Now, users have access to an intermediate option: keep the information in your account, but only relatively fresh.
You can make so that the data is older than 3 or 18 months are deleted automatically. Recommendations remain, though less accurate, but on Google's servers will store much less information about your actions.
While this applies only to the history of the locations and activities on the Web and applications. This, for example, page views on Chrome, queries «Google Maps» and programs that you use on Android. But the company hinted that innovation starts later be extended to other types of data.
The function will be available to all users in the coming weeks.
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