Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You

itwbennett writes "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com — unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The change goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EFF have posted some simple instructions showing how to delete your web history at Google."

Today is Feb. 29?

[Relayman]

I'm confused. The new policy goes into effect March 1 and today is the last day to erase the old?

Done.

[NIN1385]

I already did this years ago, but thank you for pointing it out to those who were not aware of such a setting. I'm sure the government is still monitoring all of this through Echelon though, which makes this meaningless.

Did I say that out loud? Shit sorry.

Re:Sign into my what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes.

Re:Sign into my what?

[eternaldoctorwho]

For some reason, I read your post in the voice of Cotton Hill [wikipedia.org]: "Ain't gots no Google account. They don't track me, I'm a war hero. I killed fiddy men."

Re:Today is Feb. 29?

[Chemisor]

Yes, many people have trouble adjusting to leap years.

Re:Today is Feb. 29?

[Anonymous Coward]

As an easy way to defeat Google's tracking, I always change the date back one week.

And use your computer.

Re:Cee-Lo Green said it best.

[Kozz]

We're all adults here..

You must be new here.

Re:Today is Feb. 29?

[Baloroth]

They're just making it easier for when they dupe this story next week. They won't even have to change the summary at all!

Re:Done.

[mrstrano]

Ha! Echelon! Didn't you get the memo? The project was renamed about 8 years ago, now it's called Facebook.

Re:Done.

[almitydave]

According to at least one newspaper [youtube.com], Facebook has drastically cut the CIA's domestic intelligence gathering costs.

(The Onion wins again)

Re:Sign into my what?

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't know it was possible but Google's been slashdotted. They should have really gotten more hardware to handle the increased unsubscribe load.

No. Today is still Feb. 22.

[tomzyk]

You obviously haven't read the fine-print in their new agreement. One of the updates is that GoogleCalendar is changing. Months always start on Thursdays from now on. And there will be 14 months per year. Google's moon-base is still working on speeding up the moon's revolution, but it should be ready [out of Beta] by the end of 2012.

Re:Sign into my what?

[Dahamma]

Why would they want to do that? ;)

Re:Sign into my what?

[chrismcb]

Things like personal like sexual preferences or a teenager quietly getting pregnant and performing an abortion,

Probably shouldn't shop at target then.