On Data Protection Day, here is how to control your privacy with Google Privacy Check-up

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Google knows what you did last summer! Not just that, it know everything you have done whenever you have gone online! Yes, you can kiss your privacy goodbye now, if you have not done so years ago. Having said that, there is a way that you can stop yourself from being tracked. Yes, some semblance of privacy can still be protected, but that too is courtesy a feature called Google Privacy Check-up. As we were saying, from your queries to searches, Google has all the data. But what happens to such an enormous amount of data? Google saves your data about what you've done online and where you've been. While Google helps you find relevant search results, gets you home through the shortest routes with various Google services like Google Search and Maps, it also tracks your preferences to serve you ads and more. However, you can keep certain things private despite all the snooping and limit the information you are being virtually forced to share. So, on this ‘Data Privacy Day’, let’s make some changes in privacy settings to our Google account to make it more secure.

1. Automatically delete Web and App Activity

Despite the fact that Web & App Activity helps you get the results faster, discover new content, and even helps to redirect you to the location where you left earlier, but the reality will remain the same that your data is getting stored every second. Though, Google allows you to control how long your web and app browsing and visiting activity will be saved, meaning you can set up an auto-delete option. Besides the auto-delete option, you can delete particular or all saved data from your history.

2. Check YouTube History

Like your web browsing and app activity, you can automatically delete your YouTube history too. It will give