How to find out what Google knows about you

Bad, Good & Worrying

it's rather bad that Google logs stores and no doubt uses such a large & detailed amount of what is (or should be) personal info
Good that they are at least honest about what they hold and have now (seemingly) made it very easy to check and more importantly remove by the individual. Although I notice the article states 'search history' - what about the rest of the data?
However, I can't help wondering what data other organisations are keeping with regard to a persons web activities - Wasn't there a recent ruling that requires data to be kept for a minimum time?

By greemble on 5 Nov 2009

I checked my google dashboard and to be honest, google knows my @gmail.com email address. great.....

By DaChimp on 5 Nov 2009

Deletable???

Very few options to 'delete all the information'
But better than most companies.

By briley on 6 Nov 2009

Part of the 'price' for 'free' services is you have to put up with this obsessional hoarding of data. At least Google has been open (a decade after starting to collect it!). Hate to think how much data is stored by Tesco.

By davidsoap on 6 Nov 2009

I think you should have noted that this doesn't touch the server logs, apparently they get anonymized by "removing part of the IP address (after 9 months) and cookie information (after 18 months)" so don't assume you're free and clear now :)

By pinero50 on 6 Nov 2009

I think you should have noted that this doesn't touch the server logs, apparently they get anonymized by "removing part of the IP address (after 9 months) and cookie information (after 18 months)" so don't assume you're free and clear now :)

By pinero50 on 6 Nov 2009

I can't see any section marked "Web History" or similar that would allow me to delete my search history (if I wanted to).

By halsteadk on 6 Nov 2009