How to: Delete the Information Google Knows About You

Google unveiled a new feature this month that lets you specify that the company can only keep data about you for a certain amount of time. Now that the feature is rolling out to users, here are the steps to follow and why you would want to do it.

Just do that. Even if you don't care what Google knows about you, at least follow this process, because there's a chance it will scare you and you'll want to stop what you can.

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