Last chance to delete data from Google.

[Moonliner]

From EFF:

How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-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.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Good to know- thanks! My search history was apparently turned off, but it's good to have confirmation.

[cirquelover]

Thanks, taken care of.

[€uroMeinke]

I welcome the new Googlelords

[Alex]

To the extent I am likely to have situation arise where I don't want them to have information it is much more a short term thing than a long term thing. If they're going to have it for 18 months I don't then much care if they have it for 5 years or indefinitely.

That said, apparently I already had this off so I'll leave it that way as I don't find the personalized results to be that helpful (it is getting awfully hard to just find an objective result set without it being filtered and sorted beyond generic usefulness), though I don't much care about the data they'd use to produce them.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I've never found this to be that scary. In fact, I'm rather excited that Google is finally having everything talk to each other. Can anyone convince me otherwise?

I'm still not concerned. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-sees-profit-in-tracking-users/2012/01/25/gIQAfDJVRQ_story.html)