The one big thing that has come out of the whole
Facebook-Cambridge Analytical scandal is that people are more aware of their
privacy. Prior to it, there weren’t too many questions being asked. Knowingly
or unknowingly most of us shared our data without a second though of where is
it going and who’s sharing what. Not anymore though as there’s a greater sense
of awareness. And companies like Google and Facebook are becoming more
transparent with how your data is being used. Recently, Google came out with
new privacy policy and is letting users “understand” what information is being
collected.
In a blog post the company noted, “We’re updating our
current Privacy Policy to make it easier to understand what information we
collect, and why we collect it. We’ve improved the navigation and organization
of the policy to make it easier to find what you’re looking for; explained our
practices in more detail and with clearer language; and added more detail about
the options you have to manage, export, and delete data from our services.”
Here we tell you how to see the data Google stores on your
plethora of web searches, browsing history and the videos you’ve seen on
YouTube. Follow these steps to know, manage and delete all the data Google has:
How to manage your data on Google
Step 1: Go to My Activity page here on Google
Step 2: On the left side of the page, you can see various
tabs like Item View, Other Google Activity, among others.
Step 3: Click on Google Activity to see what all information
– location history, device information – is being with the search giant.
Step 4: You can click on various tabs and manage the
information that you want to share with Google.
How to delete your search history, YouTube history on
Google:
Step 1: Go to My Activity page here on Google
Step 2: You’ll see a three-dot menu on top right
Step 3: Click on the menu and see what all YouTube videos
you’ve watched.
Step 4: You can choose to delete what you want from the
history.
