Google's data collection can be a double-edged sword: helpful in some instances and too invasive in others. Here's how to check and adjust the privacy settings on your account.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When signed in to your Google account, your searches, clicked links, images, and videos are tracked. Things like your IP address, ...

Google had planned to kill Chrome’s devilish little tracking cookies by now. But that hasn’t happened; it has been hit by delay after delay. Google’s latest update suggests—but does not assure—that so ...

Google's apps, such as Chrome, Maps, Search, and YouTube, are constantly tracking your activity and sending it to Google. But don't worry, Google doesn't use the data for nefarious purposes like ...

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If you’ve used Google Chrome’s “Incognito” mode anytime in the past several years and feared that the company was tracking your in-the-shadows web browsing, you can breathe a sigh of relief. As part ...

Remember Apple’s flock of birds swooping around, spying on users as they browse the web, a thinly disguised attack on Google’s ongoing Chrome tracking nightmare. Well, despite promises to the contrary ...