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Soon, Google will allow you to auto-delete web activity, location data

The Alphabet-owned company has gone a step ahead to assure users' data is not misused, or harvested without consent

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Yuvraj Malik Bengaluru
In a major milestone for internet privacy, search giant Google is rolling out a new feature that will allow users auto-delete their location history and web and app activity permanently from Google’s records. 

While controls to stop data gathering, which Google uses to personalise recommendations and ads, already exits on Google account settings page, the Alphabet-owned company has gone a step ahead to assure users' data is not misused, or harvested without consent. 
 
More often than not, people, by blindly agreeing to terms and conditions for internet services, allow their data and online activity to be tracked. It is no
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