Download Everything Google Knows About You with Google Takeout

Posted by Dave Cahill on May 20, 2021 in Google, Privacy

If you ask any privacy evangelist in the world, they will tell you that Google knows more about you than your friends.

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Google is going to start automatically enrolling users in two-step verification

Posted by Dave Cahill on May 6, 2021 in Google, Security News

Google will soon start pushing more Gmail users and Google Account holders to enable two-step verification — the extra layer of security that can protect people when their credentials have been phished or exposed through a data breach.

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iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You—So Do It

Posted by Dave Cahill on Apr 27, 2021 in Google, Mac / Apple, Privacy

iOS update stops tracking by Facebook and other advertisers, who fought the move. App Tracking Transparency is finally here.

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Tracking cookies being scrapped by Google– but invasive targeted advertising will live on

Posted by Dave Cahill on Mar 18, 2021 in Google, Privacy

Tracking cookies are being scrapped according to Google by 2022, the company says will plot “a course towards a more privacy-friendly web”.

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Google claims it will stop tracking individual users for ads

Posted by Dave Cahill on Mar 4, 2021 in Google, Privacy

If Google kills cookies, won’t the company just cook up some other method for individually tracking users? Google says anonymized, group-based interest tracking will be good enough.

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Edge and Chrome want to help with that password problem of yours.

Posted by Dave Cahill on Jan 22, 2021 in Google, Windows

Edge and Chrome are coming to the rescue with beefed-up password management built directly into the browsers natively including Edge’s new sync feature.