Sundar Pichai brings in big data policy change in Google; users' location data to be erased after 18 months
Battling controversies surrounding the storage of users' data and their handling, Google has brought in major changes in policy for data storage. In a blog post, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai informed that starting today, the maximum period of storage of location data will be set to 18 months from the time google location will be switched on by the new users. Google will allow them to assign it the task to automatically delete Location History, search, voice, and YouTube activity data after three months or 18 months rather than waiting for users to delete it. Earlier, Google allowed users to delete on their own and did not have any fixed timeline for the automatic deletion of the location data. Notably, the feature will be available for only new users however the company will add and promote the option of auto-delete on the Google search page and on YouTube as a nudge for users to get a hold of their auto-delete settings. Grand offer, call 6202354309 Pichai in the post assured the...