by Woodsbum
I found a post on SHTF School today about Google history and tracking. References to this are all over the Internet, but I had yet to actually find the settings until today. Once I pulled up my history page I was almost sick to my stomach. Every voice search I had performed for the last couple years was there. I could literally click the audio file and hear my voice. The scarier one is the location search. There was several years of data stored up to include my trips back East for business and my daughter’s graduation. The even scarier thing is that it actually shows the exact route I took through the Everglades, all around the Carolinas, trips locally, and even the layovers on the flights I have taken.
Here is the link to see what Big Brother is tracking, that they let you know about.
After some searching around, I figured out how to delete my history and all the audio recordings. I have yet to figure out how to delete my location history. This really scares me because I don’t trust anything. It would be real easy to look at my location history and see that I like gun stores, being outside, and where I go. Since I am so paranoid, although I would never do anything that would jeopardize my gun rights, hunting rights or freedom, I would hate to somehow get profiled by Big Brother just because I want to be left the hell alone. Getting lumped into some “bad guy” group just for doing LEGAL activities that some libtard back East doesn’t like does scare me a lot.
Deleting the other stuff was pretty easy. The options are at the top of the page and you just choose “Settings” to get to the delete option. Maps and location are a bit trickier. Here are the instructions from Google:
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View or delete your Google Maps history
Your Maps history shows you places that you:
- Reviewed
- Saved
- Shared
- Were asked to review
- Answered a question about
- Searched for recently
Your Maps history will only be saved if you’ve turned on Web & App Activity.
View your Maps history
To see your Maps history, follow the steps below.
- Sign in and open Google Maps.
- Click the Menu > History.
Delete Maps history
You can delete places from your Maps history one at a time. To delete all of your Maps history, you’ll have to use your computer.
To delete a place from your Maps history, follow the steps below.
- Sign in and open Google Maps.
- Click the Menu > History.
- Check the box next to the item you want to delete.
- Click Delete.
- Optional: To delete a day, check the box next to the day > Delete.
- Optional: To delete all of your history, go to the top and click More > Delete options > Advanced > All time > Delete.
Note: Deleting all of your search history from Maps doesn’t include places you’ve saved, shared, or were asked to review.
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Whether you are as paranoid as I am or just want to keep nosey people out of your business, this is a good thing for you to look at. I noticed that places that I had never actually gone into showed up as “locations” that I had been on the map. For instance: I don’t go to Burger King, but there sure were a lot of them listed on my map. It makes me wonder if just driving by something will get it to trigger and save the location. You could get yourself into trouble in a place where there are more strip clubs than churches just by driving on the wrong road.
Good luck with this everyone!