Google is lying to you with their activity controls

9 points

8 years ago

I use this to stop Google from tracking me https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity , I just did this to see what information Google is gathering on me. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout. As it turns out they don't match and Google is lying to us all.

To start I keep my Google Gmail clean and the "All Mail" box continually empty. But turns out Google has kept my email for the last 6 months without my permission. I have already requested that it be deleted thought their online tools and all my mailboxes show empty.

Moving on to browsing history I have all of my Google activity set not to track https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity , going to the site shows no activity. However looking though the logs that Google has sent me from https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout they have my complete browsing history for the last 12 months.

I am actually sickened by this as I go out of my way to protect my privacy and take all of the steps provided by Google to stop them from tracking everything I do. They are just straight up lying to people, it is disgusting.

If you have any Google account of any kind then the information they have on you could be a treasure trove, the damage someone could do to a public figure with this type of information would be huge.

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