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   How to delete your Google Browsing History before new policy   
      
      
   By JohnThomas Didymus   
   Feb 24, 2012 in Internet   
      
      
   With just a week to go before Google changes to its new privacy policy that   
   allows it to gather, store and use personal information, users have a last   
   chance to delete their Google Browsing History, along with any damning   
   information therein.   
   Tech News Daily reports that once Google's new unified privacy policy takes   
   effect all data already collected about you, including search queries, sites   
   visited, age, gender and location will be gathered and assigned to your online   
   identity represented by your Gmail and YouTube accounts. After the policy   
   takes effect you are not allowed to opt out without abandoning Google   
   altogether. But now before the policy takes effect, you have the option of   
   deleting your Google Web History by modifying your settings so that Google is   
   unable to associate data collected about you with your Gmail or YouTube   
   accounts.   
   Tech News Daily reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit   
   organization based in San Francisco that advocates for online privacy, says:   
   "Search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you,   
   including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation,   
   religion, health concerns, and more."   
   EFF advises all Google users to delete their web history.   
   Meanwhile, Center for Digital Democracy has filed a complaint with the Federal   
   Trade Commission, asking the Commission to sue Google to stop the policy   
   change. Tech News Daily reports FTC can impose fines up to $16,000 per day for   
   violation.   
   Daily Mail reports that deleting your browsing history before March 1 when   
   Google's new privacy policy comes into effect will limit Google's ability to   
   track and record your every move online. The process is simple. Follow the   
   steps below:   
   1. Go to the google homepage and sign into your account.   
   2. Click the dropdown menu next to your name in the upper-right hand corner of   
   your screen.   
   3. Click accounts settings   
   4. Find the "Services section"   
   5. Under "Services" there is a sub-section that reads "View, enable, disable   
   web history." Click the link next to it that reads: "Go to Web History."   
   (Note: When you click "Go to Web History" you may be taken to a page which   
   gives you the options "Turn Web History On"/"No Thanks": Click "Turn Web   
   History On" and you will finally be taken to step 6 below)   
   6. Click on "Remove all Web History"   
   When you click on "Remove all Web History," a message appears that says " Web   
   History is Paused." What this means is that while Google will continue   
   gathering and storing information about your web history it will make all data   
   anonymous, that is, Google will not associate your Web History information   
   with your online accounts and will therefore be unable to send you customized   
   search results.   
   Google's ability to gather personalized information about you by assigning   
   data to your Gmail and YouTube accounts will remain "Paused" till you click   
   "Resume."   
      
   Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/320137#ixzz1nXdW6DFL   
      
      
   Matt   
      
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