Google has all your browing history and will be using 03/01/2012

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This really ticks me off. This means anyone who Googled on your computer is in the history. Including maybe a goofy friend "investigating" porn or who knows what. IT is shown in the history as belong to You. You have until March 1st to erase all Google history from your computers. And all your accounts. I just erased mine and it's pretty easy.
Privacy doesn't mean much anymore. Only advertising $$$. Use your best judgement and pass it along if needed.
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February 21, 2012 | By Eva Galperin
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/...les-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.

Here's how you can do that:

1. Sign into your Google account.


2. Go to https://www.google.com/history

3. Click "remove all Web History."

4. Click "ok."

Note that removing your Web History also pauses it. Web History will remain off until you enable it again.

If you have several Google accounts, you will need to do this for each of them.
 
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Paul, from what I understand from listening to Clark Howard. They log you IP number and track your history. Google claims it helps them identify what site best suit your search. other words, which one of there advertisers site they list first. He was even saying there had been cases where search history had been used in divorce cases and criminal cases as evidence. He also said Bing, Yahoo, and others do the same thing. pretty much to the point that one was no better than the other. But my thing is if you have nothing to hide and don't search for smut or how to build bombs and crap. I Don't worry about it. If they check mine they are going to get very tired of seeing woodworking and hunting web sites.
 
Is that only if you have a "google account"? My family uses it as a search engine but I'm pretty sure no one has an account...

Thanks for the post!
 
I know I don't have a google 'account' but I do use google a LOT. And... google does keep track of where I've been. I know this because the ADS that pop up lately have been for places similar to what I've 'googled'. So... what can I do to keep my "privacy" ? (there is no such thing anymore)
 
I just talked with my son who is an IT guru. He said that you did not have to have an account for them to record your history. By Them I mean all search engines. He said it was part of there source code or something, he lost me on that. He gave me an example of how Police had programs that log IP addresses of people who searched and download kiddy porn. It flags certian key words. They then use the IP address to identify where the computer was located and catch the people. He said that your computer it self is more dangerous than a search engine if your doing something wrong. He said the cookies and internet history have gotten more people in trouble than anything. One good point he also made was to NEVER have you computer remember passwords for sites that you don't want others to see. Anyone that uses your computer can click Tools, options, security, saved passwords, and they got you.
 
I see google's tracking as a feature, not a problem, so I'll not take any steps to stop them from tracking this information. Also, I don't do anything with my computer that I am ashamed of, so I'll not delete the history.
 
I just played around with it for a few minutes and it does appear to only collect info from google searches while you are signed in to your google account.
 
Rob73 said:
If you're worried about IP loging just setup your browser to use a proxy server.
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Rob73, I see reference to proxy servers before. Like yes or no. As I don't understand how a Proxy works I never checked it out.

How would a guy set one up? I'm fairly computer literate but not real nerddy. :)

Bob S. (aka: PalmerMethod)
 
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