During a get-together with some friends, one of my friends
asked me why the Google web is showing all my activity in his mobile handset.
This was a normal question but it also sounds some matter of security. This is
same as if an unwanted involvement of yours wife’s brother in each and every
day to day activity of yours. You will get irritated only because he is
physically present with you. You can’t remove him from such involvements
because your wife will get irritated from you.
But what will happen if anyone invisibly keeps tracking your
all activities.
The same thing is happening in today’s digital world and it
may be knowingly or unknowingly. In this digital world the technology is
growing with its fast pace. The android Smartphone is the outcome of such
development and now this is the part of one’s family. We are almost unable keep
away our handsets, even for a second. This smartphone is smartly tracking all
of your activity by hiding in background.
Then what to do the
next……………..the solution is to just to pause
the involvement of such things by
applying some simple steps.
When we purchase a brand new android smartphone, we get very
excited & in this excitation we just ignore all the setting, terms &
condition asked before starting the phone & we just move forward. In this
excitation we forget that these settings, terms and condition are related to
our personal security information about which we have to be aware.
One such setting while starting the android smartphone is
location & history settings in Google Account Setting portion.
Just follow the following simple steps to keep your privacy
safe even if anybody has used his smartphone so many times. Let’s now discuss
these following simple steps.
STEP-1
Go to the Google Account page for signing in.
STEP-2
Password section page will be
displayed for login. Enter the password and login to Google account.
STEP-3
After the above step following type page will be
displayed and then go to Review your privacy settings and click on get started.
STEP-4
Then privacy checkup page will be
displayed by Google account page like following image. Click on the blue colour
START NOW button.
STEP-5
After clicking the START NOW button we get the following page which are
having different types of Privacy Check in. But for this instant we have to
click on one by one on blue colour (Turn on)
button.
Location
History.
Device
Information
If both are Turned on then Turn it
off one by one.
STEP-6
After clicking on the (Turn on) button we see the
following type of image in which
Location history is ON which shown
by the blue dot slides toward right side.
To turn it off just
click on it and the dialog box will be shown in which a Pause button will be
shown asking about to pause it or not about location history.
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Just click on the pause button
which makes the blue colour sliding ball to grey colour and Paused status will
be shown in place of Turn on button which is shown below.
Step-7
In similar manner you can also
remove the device information stored in website by adopting following steps.
Just click on the three dots shown
in the right top corner after which
following drop down message will be shown:
Click on the Delete All option
then the Delete on the dialog box shown
This deletion is confirmed by No Activity on
following image
Step-8
This step is the final one in
which the all of yours previous history stored can be deleted. For this just
click on the three dots shown on the top right corner which will show the drop
down menue.
Click on the Delete Activity By as
shown
Now select the option All Time in Delete by date option as shown
A dialog box with delete option
will be shown just click on it.
Deletion of all your previous
history of your activity will be confirmed by following image.
In this manner you can secure your
privacy provided by Google on its platform of Security.

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