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When you use Google sites, apps, and services, some of your activity is saved in your Google Account. You can find and delete this activity in My Activity, and you can stop saving most activity at any time. Delete all activity • On your computer, go to • Above your activity, click Delete . • Click All time. • Click Next Delete. Delete individual activity items For example, this could include a search you did on Google or a website you visited on Chrome: • On your computer, go to • Scroll down to your activity. • Find the item you want to delete. You can find an item a few different ways, including: • Browse by day. • Search or use filters. • On the item you want to delete, click Delete . • On your computer, go to • Scroll down to your activity. • Filter your activity. You can filter by both date and product at the same time. • To filter by date: Select Calendar . Then, select a date to find activity before that date. • To filter by product: Select Search . Then, select products you want to include. Some Google products don't save activity in My Activity. • Delete activity. • To delete all activity you filtered for: Next to the search bar, select Delete Delete Results. • To delete certain items: On the item you want to delete, select Delete . You can automatically delete some of the activity in your Google Account. • On your computer, go to your • At the left, click Data & privacy. • Under "History settings," click an activity or history setting you want to auto-delete. • C...

But there's some good news, sort of. Google has introduced a new data dashboard called the My Activity page where you can see just about every single piece of data that Google has collected about you over the better part of the past two decades. Every website you've visited, every image you've viewed, every search term you've typed into the Google Search box. It's terrifying. But it's also pretty useful, because, as evidenced by the mountain of data Google has stored on you, knowledge is power. From the My Activity page you not only see what Google is tracking, you can also take steps to delete data and prevent future collection. What is the My Activity page? The My Activity page is a hub where you can see all of the key information that Google has been collecting about you over the years. You can find this page by going to How is this different from the Web History tool? Google's How does Google use this data? Google uses your data in two main ways: To improve its services for the general population (for example, using your mobile location data to get information on current traffic patterns) and to give you a more personalized experience (like autocompleting your searches). You can read more about how Google uses your data on its Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET No. The My Activity page shows data from a variety of Google products, but not all of them. You can, however, find even more data that Google has collected by going to the My Activity page and clicking the menu icon i...

When you search on Google with Web & App Activity turned on, Google saves activity like your Search history to your Google Account. Web & App Activity saves data about the things you do across Google services, including associated info like locations, in your account to make your experience more personalized. We use your saved activity to give you more personalized experiences, like app and content recommendations. In • Delete Search historysaved to your Google Account. • Manage Search settings like what activity Google saves and when Google auto-deletes your history. Your Search history can also be saved to your device, like when you use the Google app while signed out of your Google Account. Manage & delete Search history Manage Search history saved to your Google Account Important: If you delete Search history that’s saved to your Google Account, you can’t get it back. You can delete a specific activity, or delete your Search history from a specific day, a custom date range, or all time. • On your computer, go to your • Choose the Search history you want to delete. You can choose: • All your Search history: Above your history, click Delete Delete all time. • A specific time period: Above your history, click Delete Delete custom range. • A specific day: Next to the day, click Delete all activity from [day] . • A specific activity: Next to the activity, click Delete activity item . Control your Search history • On your computer, go to your • On the left or at the top,...

What does Google know about me? Most of us use Google for almost everything: Navigation, scheduling, shopping, games, research, and of course, search. We search for recipes, vacation destinations, historical facts, medical information, news stories, and almost every piece of information a human living in this decade might ever need to know. It’s all on Google. And, once you’ve bought the device and paid the Internet and electricity bills, it’s free. But what does Google get from us in return? Our time, our attention, and our data. The company is All of this sounds terrifying, but is surprisingly commonplace. Google states that it’s not The tech powerhouse’s hubs “My Account” and “My Activity,” introduced in 2015 and 2016 respectively, give us scary insight into what it actually knows about us. The former provides a glimpse into the information the company collects about us and, most importantly, allows us to change our settings. And the latter allows us to view almost all of our online activity that’s tied our Google accounts. The good news is that these tools allow you to delete your history, and stop Google from tracking you. Make sure you’re using It’s no surprise that the popular search engine collects lots of data about us through our search history, location, and voice searches. Plus, because iPhone and Android devices are tied to our Google accounts, any web or app activity—including our search history and activity in maps—is automaticall...