Google: Automatically clear search & location history

After a lot of scandals and reviews for collecting user geographic location data, Google announced today that it plans to roll out a new feature that will allow users to automatically delete location, browsing and history data from their accounts.

The new feature is scheduled to roll out in the coming weeks, according to Google, and will allow users to set a expiration for information such as their searches on Google, their activity on Google sites, installations, usage of Android apps and games, Chrome browsing history, and all location data. google

Google typically collects location data through a Location History feature included in some of its services, such as Google Search and Maps.

From the images posted by Google earlier today, users will have an option in their account settings section that will allow them to store location and web and app data indefinitely within the accounts until they decide to manually clear them way, or automatically after three, or after 18 months.

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Google will release this feature after growing for the control it has over location data of users of its services.

Location History is off by default in all accounts, but a survey by Associated Press he revealed in August of 2018 that even when turned off, the function continues to monitor user movements.

Since that disclosure, the company has won a number of lawsuits in the US and seven EU countries have launched investigations into GDPR violations, as the company was once again hiding from collecting geographic data.

Last month, a separate survey conducted by The New York Times, he revealed that the US authorities use this database containing the site history data (Google calls it Sensorvault) for dragnet surveys, something that did not know the general public.

Following the revelations of the Times, Google was recently summoned to a US Congress to answer a series of questions about how it manages the Sensorvault database and who else has access to that information.

Users of Google services that will have the option of automatic of historical location data is likely the only way to deal with impending scrutiny from US regulators, to which the company has until May 7 to respond

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  1. Obviously the information will be hidden from us όμως But Google will keep the History lest we sometimes need it and ask for it desperately.

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