This successfully combines some of the most advanced methods to further protect your privacy. This year, in an industry first, we’ve used both differential privacy and federated learning, a technique we invented, to train the models that underpin Gboard. It’s also used in Google Maps, so you can see how busy a restaurant is, in real time, without ever knowing who is at the restaurant. For example, differential privacy powers our COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports, which helps public health authorities combat COVID-19 by using location data in a privacy-preserving way. That’s why we continue to make advances in privacy-preserving technologies and invest in thousands of privacy engineers to make our protections stronger across Google products. Investing in privacy-preserving technologiesīeing a responsible steward of your data means keeping it private.
Now that it's been integrated into Google Account and Chrome, we'll be sunsetting the Password Checkup Chrome extension in the coming months. Like the other elements of Security Checkup, we'll provide the information you need to secure any at-risk accounts, automatically. More than 100 million people have used Password Checkup, and they’ve seen a 30 percent reduction in breached credentials-it's been an incredibly effective way of keeping people safe not just on Google, but across the web. In the coming weeks, Password Checkup, our tool that checks if passwords saved to your Google Account have been compromised, will become a core part of Security Checkup. In one click we'll give you a snapshot of your Account security and offer personalized recommendations to help keep your data safe.
We provide automatic protections across all of our products, including Safe Browsing, which protects more than 4 billion devices from phishing and malware every day, and Google Play Protect, which scans your apps before, during and after download to help keep your devices safe.įive years ago we launched Security Checkup, an easy, one stop shop for securing your Google Account. Protecting your privacy starts with the world’s most advanced security. As always, we don’t sell your information to anyone, and we don’t use information in apps where you primarily store personal content-such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos-for advertising purposes, period. Default retention periods will not apply to other products like Gmail, Drive and Photos, which are designed to safely store your personal content. Current users can still choose the 3 or 18 months auto-delete option.
This improves upon current industry practice and ensures that YouTube can continue to make relevant entertainment recommendations based on what you’ve watched or listened to in the past-like letting you know if your favorite series has released another season, or when your favorite artist drops a new album. For example, we're bringing this to YouTube, where auto-delete will be set to 36 months by default if you create a new account or turn on your YouTube History for the first time. But we will actively remind you about the auto-delete controls through in-product notifications and emails, so you can choose the auto-delete setting that works for you.Īs we introduce default retention to more products, we’re guided by the principle that products should keep information only for as long as it’s useful to you.
If you’ve already had Location History and Web & App Activity turned on, we won’t be changing your settings. You can always turn these settings off or change your auto-delete option.
This means your activity data will be automatically and continuously deleted after 18 months, rather than kept until you choose to delete it.
Web & App Activity auto-delete will also default to 18 months for new accounts. Here’s how it works: Starting today, the first time you turn on Location History-which is off by default-your auto-delete option will be set to 18 months by default.
We continue to challenge ourselves to do more with less, and today we’re changing our data retention practices to make auto-delete the default for our core activity settings. That’s why last year we introduced auto-delete controls, which give you the choice to have Google automatically and continuously delete your Location History, search, voice and YouTube activity data after 3 months or 18 months. We believe that products should keep your information for only as long as it's useful and helpful to you-whether that’s being able to find your favorite destinations in Maps or getting recommendations for what to watch on YouTube.