How to Be Private While Using Google: The Comprehensive Guide to Google Privacy
Google Privacy Settings are an absolute maze and exist in dozens of setting and pages, making it hard to control your data. My comprehensive guide makes it easy to lock down your Google account.
I imagine that probably everyone reading this uses a Google product in some part of their life. Whether using an Android phone, Gmail, Google Search, or Google Maps, Google is a part of your life, which results in Google collecting and saving a lot of data about you.
The good news is that Google provides users with options to control what data is collected and how long it is retained. The bad news is that there are so many products and settings that it is overwhelming and not easy to ensure ALL of your settings are as private as possible.
This is why I put this comprehensive Google privacy guide together. I went through the maze of settings and have listed all the settings with links and helpful screenshots to help you easily and quickly go through your options and make your account as private as possible. If you go through this list, you will have ensured your Google account is as private as you want it to be!
It’s worth taking the 5 to 10 minutes to ensure your Google account is as private as possible!
The Comprehensive Guide to Google Privacy
This guide will take you through the ten stops of critical Google privacy settings. When finished, you will have made your Google account as private as possible!
1st Stop: My Google Activity
If you want the most comprehensive review of Google privacy, start with “MyActivity”. Go to https://myactivity.google.com.
If you want a more simplistic review of Google privacy, use the Privacy Checkup Tool. However, I have found that this tool is not that comprehensive, and if that’s the only thing you use, you will miss many privacy options.
On the MyActivity page, you will see a page that looks like this.
