Google. Last night, the American company made a surprising announcement by which it informs its users from all over the world about the launch of a function that many of them have been waiting for a very long time. More specifically, Google announced last night that it is launching a new function for its services that will allow users to automatically delete their history of visited locations, history of Internet browsing, and online activity.
Google. The feature has been requested for a very long time by people as part of the GDPR changes aimed at bringing some order to the way their data is managed and tracked online. Google Company will allow them users to set their data to be automatically deleted once every three months, or 18 months, so that everything will be reset automatically so that they are no longer recognized as easily by the company's services.
Google. SURPRISE with the LAUNCH of the function WANTED by the People
Google. The function implemented by the American company is available somewhere inside the settings section for "Web and App Activity", and users will have to look for it to be able to benefit from this serious change. Even if Google does not promote this function in the foreground of the website where data about our locations and internet browsing are visible, its implementation is a very big step forward for online privacy.
In addition to these options, we're announcing auto-delete controls that make it even easier to manage your data. Here's how they'll work. Choose a time limit for how long you want your activity data to be saved—3 or 18 months—and any data older than that will be automatically deleted from your account on an ongoing basis. These controls are coming first to Location History and Web & App Activity and will roll out in the coming weeks.
Google. The company has been heavily criticized for not offering a function of this kind, but it has for a very long time offered the option to manually delete the data that is recorded by its services, so we are not talking about something completely new. Google just automates this process so that people don't have to go into the section where data can be deleted every time, so it just simplifies things, and it has often been criticized pointlessly.
Google. Announced today, the new function of the American company will be available in the following weeks in user accounts, so if you don't see it yet, you will have to be a little more patient until it is implemented.
