Tech: Managing your privacy online #5 – Google's Assistant is watching you - even if you don't think you have an assistant!

I was naive. I thought that since I don’t use Google Assistant, I didn’t need to pay attention to how it used my data. WRONG.

If you go to the https://myaccount.google.com/yourdata/assistant page, you’re greeted by this:

Now look at the highlighted text:

A sting in the tail – there are other unexpected privacy settings here

Scroll down the page and you’ll find this:

You’ll probably want to turn them off.

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