My Activity reveals how much Google knows about you

[Terry Ganzi]

My Activity is a new, centralized service by Google that reveals how much Google knows about you by displaying your Google activity history.

Up until now, when you wanted to know what Google knows about you, you had to use multiple tools to find out about that.

There was one for YouTube videos, another for search, a third for advertisement, a fourth for locations, and so on and so forth.

My Activity by Google combines all these in a simple chronological listing that you can go through easily.

The product is Google's latest effort to improve transparency, and give users more control over (some) of the data that it collects.

Google My Activity
A short intro is displayed to you on first load that highlights the benefits of My Activity (rediscover, Google's benefit, and control).

Your Google activity is loaded afterwards in a chronological stream. Entries are sorted by date, and next to them are the activity types listed that Google recorded for that date.

You may see search listed there, help, news, YouTube, or other popular Google services. A bar underneath each type highlights its weight in comparison to the other types.

Each record is listed with the time, the URL that was visited, and additional information such as search terms or URLs.

A click on the three dots next to a date displays an option to delete the record, while a click on the same icon next to a record options to delete it or display details about it.

The top features search and filter options. You may type to find specific Google records of interest, or use the filter to limit records by date or product.

Filters include YouTube, Voice & Audio, Maps, Google Now, Play, Search and others.


You can read more about it at this link: My Activity reveals how much Google knows about you - gHacks Tech News

 

[yigido]

Surprised about what Google knows about you?

How Much Does Google Know About You(!)

 

[DardiM]

Google updated their Privacy policy (at least in France) June 28 , 2016. I have disabled all options I've seen
Have also installed their chrome extension to deactivate Google analytics

 

[neon]

any suggest what do in chrome to protect privacy ?

 

[yigido]

any suggest what do in chrome to protect privacy ?

 

[neon]

yes but chrome is realy good

 

[yigido]

yes but chrome is realy good

Use uBlock Origin Then search on Google about Privacy tweaks in Chrome

 

[jamescv7]

Either you like it or not, Google provides high quality of products you need.

So equals the revenue they receive in order to maintain the operation; survey yourself if you are too conscious on privacy issues

 

[simbelmayne]

There's no need for this. Is someone really annoyed by licensed Google ads or what? You should worry about other companies, smaller and greedier than Google. I don't know about Europe and US, but in Russia, where I am from, we have Mail.ru, and this is real disaster. Adware, bundled install of toolbars and other stuff from the owner of the biggest social media in Russia (ВКонтакте) - it's ridiculous, but true.