{"id":31651,"date":"2019-11-05T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30645\/How-To-Automatically-Delete-Your-Google-Data-And-Why.html"},"modified":"2019-11-05T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:11:35","slug":"how-to-automatically-delete-your-google-data-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/how-to-automatically-delete-your-google-data-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Automatically Delete Your Google Data, And Why"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google collects lots of data, which is used to curate content recommendations on services like Google Play and YouTube, as well as market ads to you based on your activity.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve talked about this practice a lot<\/a><\/span>, but to Google\u2019s credit, the company has given users greater control over the ultimate fate of the data it collects<\/a><\/span>. This includes the ability to automatically delete this data at regular, repeating intervals. We\u2019ve covered some of this in the past, but in light of some recent updates to Google\u2019s privacy options<\/a><\/span>, we\u2019re going to show you how to automatically delete your data across as many of Google\u2019s services as possible.<\/p>\n

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First let\u2019s go over the data that can be automatically deleted, which Google organizes into three different categories:<\/p>\n