Instagram is making it a whole lot easier to remove posts, comments and other activity from the platform. The photo sharing app is rolling out new account controls that allow users to bulk delete ...

GOOGLE knows plenty about you – and thankfully, it’s easy to scrub it. There are some quick ways to delete some of the most personal info Google holds on you. Google has built special buttons that let ...

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Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai has announced new privacy improvements to keep your information safe, including changes to its data retention practices across core products to keep less data by ...

For years, my Facebook account has practically sat dormant. It’s a nostalgic relic of the past that lets me occasionally walk down the memory lane of my life’s first two decades. But it’s also a weak ...

Google is intimately familiar with all the things you like or do or think. When you search for something, use Gmail, watch videos on YouTube, or conduct any other type of activity through a Google ...

Google will soon let users automatically delete location history and other private data in rolling intervals of either three months or 18 months. "Choose a time limit for how long you want your ...

In order to provide its users with more control over their location history and activity data, Google has announced a new privacy-focused option called auto-delete. The auto-delete option would ...

Knowingly or unknowingly, when you turn on Voice & Audio Activity, you let Google save a recording of your voice and other audio automatically to your Google Account. If this activity from Google ...

Facebook Inc.’s ad targeting algorithms serve up promotions based on user data that the social network gathers via its platforms and from other services such as e-commerce websites. Today, the company ...

Facebook on Tuesday introduced what it’s calling “Manage Activity,” a way for Facebook users either to archive or entirely delete older posts that they simply want expunged from the social network.