Google will allow users to automatically delete location tracking data
Google is quietly introducing a new feature for personal Google accounts, allowing you to automatically delete location history data and data that works on the web and apps after a certain amount of time. (has been set up in advance). You can set to automatically delete data after 3 or up to 18 months and after that, data will continue to be maintained and deleted again and again in the set time period.
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This feature is supposed to ease the situation after Mountain View giant's user data collection was uncovered last year, when it was reported that Google continued to track its location. Users even if they have turned off the Location History setting (Location History).
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To completely prevent your location from being tracked, it is best to thoroughly explore your personal account settings options to turn off the 'Web and App Activity' setting so that it is reasonable. This upcoming release will allow data to be deleted for both the Web platform and the application, which will include every bit of your location history data that Google has stored.
Google said that it will deploy this new feature worldwide in the next few weeks, and it is likely that this will be an independent feature available, in addition to existing options that allow users to delete. This type of data is normally manual.
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In addition, the company also mentioned that the location history as well as the data on the web and the application are the first two user data bits that this new feature will target, indicating the variety of data. Other users can also be managed and deleted more effectively in the future.
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