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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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