Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You

itwbennett writes "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com — unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The change goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EFF have posted some simple instructions showing how to delete your web history at Google."

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Re:Sign into my what?

[supersat]

If you're not signed in, they store your history for 180 days, but you can opt-out of that without a Google account: http://www.google.com/history/optout

Of little to no consequence

[arisvega]

From their website (http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54067):

You can remove all Web History from your Google Account at any time. While signed in to your Google Account:

Go to google.com/history.new window

Click Remove all web history.

However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users.

(emphasis mine)