My Activity reveals how much Google knows about you

JMH

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My Activity is a new, centralized service by Google that reveals how much Google knows about you by displaying your Google activity history.

Up until now, when you wanted to know what Google knows about you, you had to use multiple tools to find out about that.

There was one for YouTube videos, another for search, a third for advertisement, a fourth for locations, and so on and so forth.

My Activity by Google combines all these in a simple chronological listing that you can go through easily.

The product is Google's latest effort to improve transparency, and give users more control over (some) of the data that it collects.

Google My Activity


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A short intro is displayed to you on first load that highlights the benefits of My Activity (rediscover, Google's benefit, and control).

Your Google activity is loaded afterwards in a chronological stream. Entries are sorted by date, and next to them are the activity types listed that Google recorded for that date.
My Activity reveals how much Google knows about you - gHacks Tech News
 

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