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New best story on Hacker News: Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off

Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off
653 by twhb | 265 comments on Hacker News.
I received an email from Google yesterday that communicated, with much obfuscation, the following key points: - The “Web & App Activity” setting for Google Workspace users will be ignored by Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Chat, Meet, Keep, and several other services. - Tracking for these services will be controlled by a new user setting, “Google Workspace Search History”, which will default to on regardless of the user’s Web & App Activity setting. - The ability of Google Workspace organizations to turn off “Web & App Activity” for all users will be removed. - These changes will take effect on 2022-03-29. Full email text: https://ift.tt/DNGQOvRsZ More info from Google: https://ift.tt/cKFGdWTOA

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