We all know
the feeling; you pass your Mom your phone to show her something on the internet
and she has it for an incredibly long time. You see her tapping away at the
screen and the colour begins to drain from your face. “Please don’t look at my search history” you silently beg her.
I’m a
writer, when I am not stationed at RLR HQ, I write fiction. I have Googled some
pretty terrifying things in my time, all in the name of a good story, of
course. There are definitely things that my parents do not need to see.
For
example, in my second book a sexual predator had his favourite part removed by
a female vigilante, I Googled how long it’d take for him to bleed out. Try explaining
that one to your parents.
These
struggles may soon be a thing of the past, in a bid for users to have greater
control over their data, Google is going to offer an automatic deletion of
user’s search history! This is absolutely fantastic for those of us who indulge
in some of the more interesting things on the internet.
The
settings will have the option of deleting this data automatically after 3
months or after 18 months depending on the user’s preferences.
The tech
giant has received its fair share of criticism for the huge amount of data it
collects, they have even been accused of tracking user’s locations after they
had switched off their location history.
If you are
a part of our loyal readership (shout out to you guys!) then you may remember
our blog from a couple of weeks ago about Amazon’s Alexa. Google has admitted that
they also listen to some voice recordings from their home assistant and mobile
apps. Do they not read our blogs!?
But perhaps
the tech giant is attempting to redeem itself here. Anything that protects the
people that use it earns a gold-star from us!
Teenage
boys around the world will be relieved – though we know that a large percentage
delete their browser history daily anyway! We can’t begin to imagine why. Or
perhaps we would rather not dwell on it for too long!
Google will
not be allowing you to delete your YouTube watch history or the history on your
home assistant, so please keep that in mind when making requests and watching
content.
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