ASSOCIATED PRESSAhead of the annual Google I/O developer festival opening its doors on Tuesday, Google has already made one major announcement: it will soon start deleting your data automatically. Said to be arriving within weeks, the new controls will apply to location history as well as web and app activity data to start with. You can already delete this data manually if you want, but the ability to have it deleted automatically is long overdue in my never humble opinion. Especially given reports last year that suggested Google was storing location data even when users had turned off location history and considering the somewhat arduous manual deletion process. If you are of the don't store any of my location data thank you very much persuasion, then disabling location history altogether would seem like a better option given that some mobile apps can track location data when they aren't running.

Source: Forbes May 05, 2019 09:33 UTC