{"id":26389,"date":"2020-06-25T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T23:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26389"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T23:03:18","slug":"another-new-google-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26389","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER NEW GOOGLE FEATURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced Wednesday that it will begin automatically deleting location history and web activity after 18 months for newly created accounts.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">The<\/span>\u00a0change comes after\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0search giant began offering an automatic deletion feature for web searches, virtual assistant requests and location history to all users.<\/p>\n<p>While new accounts will have\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0deletion feature by default, existing accounts will not have their settings changed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">The<\/span>\u00a0shift comes amid criticism of Google&#8217;s data collection, which\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0company says it uses to make its user experience better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that products should keep your information for only as long as it&#8217;s useful and helpful to you\u2014 whether that\u2019s being able to find your favorite destinations in Maps or getting recommendations for what to watch on YouTube,&#8221; Google CEO Sundar Pichai\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zwrdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqfrfpzm_jjvbvvjrjwbvnjbrmvnt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zwrdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqfrfpzm_jjvbvvjrjwbvnjbrmvnt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1593289087916000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFciPWWspc1gLhFEQ4aJiXcqokECg\">wrote in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced Wednesday that it will&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26390,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389\/revisions\/26390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}