Nowadays, privacy on your smartphone plays an increasingly important role in our daily life. Large tech companies want to know more about you. This mainly concerns personal information such as your name, age and place of residence. These companies are also curious about where your interests lie.
Companies such as Google or Facebook obtain this information by tracking your surfing behavior. Fortunately, it is possible to determine how much information these companies receive from you. First we tell you what these companies really know about you and then we give some tips on how to best deal with this.
What does Google know about me?
Everyone probably knows or suspects that Google knows a lot about its users, but what exactly do they know? First, we’ll explain where to find exactly what Google knows about you, then we will discuss the settings that you can adjust to increase your privacy. All you need is a Google account, which you automatically have if you have a Gmail account.
Go to the login page of your Google account via an internet browser.
Are you logged in? Then go to “Data and Personalization”.
Scroll down until you see “Ad Personalization”.
Then click on “Go to ad settings”.
What you see next is a list of topics that Google thinks you are interested in.
Now you can adjust what Google is allowed to know about you. If you go to the same menu of your Google account settings, “Data and Personalization”, it is possible to adjust a few things. So you have more control over your privacy than you think!
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