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Closing your account is a two-step process: securing any information that you might want, and then shutting the account down for good.  Once you close your account you’ll lose access to all of your data and content, including emails, calendars, Yahoo Fantasy Teams, and Finance portfolios. But that information can be easily archived before your delete your account. It’s easy to transfer old emails to most other email services. For instance, if you want to move Yahoo emails to a Gmail account,… Source link

In the wake of the Australian Federal Court finding that Google misled Android users on the collection of location data, conversations around privacy concerns between consumers and big tech companies have found their way back into the spotlight. If you need more context on the matter, Google was discovered to have continued tracking the location data of Australian Android users who created Google accounts between January 2017 and December 2018. Where it was thought that disabling the… Source link

Google Assistant can add a lot of convenience to your life, but that comes with some privacy sacrifices. Everything you say to Google is being recorded, but there are several ways to delete these recordings. Having recordings made by the Google Assistant sounds scarier than it really is. For starters, it’s important to understand that Google only records you when the process is initiated with the “Hey/OK Google” command (or manually). The recordings are then used to improve… Source link

Ready to ditch Google? Here’s how to delete your acount.  Angela Lang/CNET

There are a few companies that people seem to have trust issues with. Google is one of them, and it’s no mystery that the company collects a lot of data about you. But just how much does it have? Let’s check. How to See Everything That Google Knows About You The good news is that Google has a central hub for viewing all of the data associated with your account. Some of this is information that you willingly provided, but there’s some stuff that you may not know about. After we… Source link

Google’s announcing some new policy changes surrounding the use of Gmail, Docs, and Google Photos. In an effort to purge unused storage, Google is updating its policy to delete users’ data from its most popular services on accounts that are inactive for more than two years. This is noted on Google’s Help site. Beginning on June 1, 2021, Google will enact a new policy that applies to the storage on several of its services. As early as June 1, 2023, Google will delete data from Drive,… Source link

If you ask Chrome to delete all cookies and site data whenever you quit the browser, it’s reasonable to expect that this policy applies to all websites. Recently, though, a bug in the browser meant data wasn’t being removed for two sites in particular: Google and YouTube. This problem was first documented by iOS developer Jeff Johnson on his blog. Johnson found that in Chrome version 86.0.4240.75, “local storage” data for Google.com and YouTube.com stuck around even after… Source link