Despite President Obama’s call for a privacy bill of rights, attorneys general expressing their displeasure (pdf) and the fact that it doesn’t meet EU standards, Google’s consolidated privacy policy goes into effect Thursday, March 1. There are three things you need to do before midnight, if you haven’t done so already.
- Log into every one of your Google account dashboards – https://www.google.com/dashboard/. Prepare to be amazed, if you’ve not seen this before. Scroll to the bottom of the page and check your web search history. If it’s enabled, turn it off here https://www.google.com/history/.
- Turn off (opt out of) personalized ads at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/
- Make a copy of your content at Google Takeout
Updated
Good point (but inconvenient, I know) from @lvdjgarcia:
Don’t forget: Log out of your google account(s)
My iPad will be used more and more for email.
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