How To Adjust Your Privacy Settings, Before Google's Big Shift

How To Adjust Your Privacy Settings, Before Google's Big Shift News that Google will place its dozens of services under one privacy policy — a change that also means the company will compile and collate each user's data from all those products — has some of its customers scrambling to restrict their privacy settings before the new policy goes into effect on March 1. Enlarge this image toggle caption NPR NPR Google Search If you're logged in to your Google account — or even if you're not — go to your Search History page. That's when you click "OK." Enlarge this image toggle caption NPR NPR YouTube There are two main areas to consider in YouTube: History, and Search History. As critics of Google's new policy have said, even with these measures, Google will still compile information about you — it'll just "partially anonymize" the data after 18 months, and desist from giving you customized results for your searches.