Google privacy, DO THIS NOW

If you use Google for anything, then

this concerns you. Most updates to a privacy policy are minor,
however in this case its a big deal. 

On March 1, 2012, Google is making changes to their privacy policy.
Under the new privacy policy, Google gives itself the freedom to
combine users' personal information from services like Web History
and YouTube with all the other Google Products, and precludes
existing users from opting out of this policy change without opting
out of the entire Google system entirely. In layman's terms, they
are combining all of their marketing profiles and data together.
So, your web queries will be connected to your YouTube video
searches and everything else that you have done within the Google
apps.  

This can provide easier access to thieves for identity theft and
makes it easier to connect someone's web searches to other online
profiles and more. Currently, there are 35 Attorney Generals that
are very concerned about this new policy. Almost all changes to a
privacy policy give the user the ability, in one way or another, to
opt out of the policy. However, there is no such option with Google.

Disabling Web History in your Google Account can help limit the
impact of this policy change. Search data can reveal particularly
sensitive information about you, including facts about your
location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health
concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your
Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their
other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to
remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History
from being recorded in the future.

Follow the steps below to disable your Web History in Google:

1) Sign into your Google Account from any screen for Email,
Calendar, Search, etc.

2) In the URL bar at the top of your brower, type the following URL

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=KNAOO&m=ImZN5e4B_VY1Yz&b=_tbajC2rr_DtlrUXVYH2Pw

You must be signed into Google first, and you have to type the URL
into the Location line NOT a search engine. Remember the https part.

3) Once you've arrived at the Web History page, choose to Pause the
Web History and Remove all past web history. This will stop Google
from connecting past web history to your other Google apps. 

An important note:

This does not stop Google from using this information for its own
internal purposes.

For more information on these Google Policy Changes, please visit
the Electronic Frontier Foundation at 

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=KNAOO&m=ImZN5e4B_VY1Yz&b=1LMKicotldj12S66GWu_kA


You have until March 1, 2012 to make this change.