Google Privacy Precaution of the Day: Google’s new unified privacy policy takes effect on March 1st, allowing Google to share users’ data among all of its products.
One of the most important things that will be shared is your Google Web History, which includes everything you’ve searched for on Google and every site you’ve visited while signed into a Google account.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted instructions for deleting your web history and stopping it from being collected in the future, which is the only way (short of cancelling your Google account) to keep that data from being merged with everything Google knows about you from Google+, YouTube and its other sites.
Meanwhile, the attorneys general of 36 states have signed a letter to Google expressing concerns about the new policy, including the risk that the sheer volume of data Google wants to collect could lead to “much more damaging cases of identity theft and fraud” if it’s ever compromised.
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