{"id":6000,"date":"2021-05-25T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:06:28","slug":"google-is-allowing-users-to-protect-their-search-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/google-is-allowing-users-to-protect-their-search-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Is Allowing Users To Protect Their Search History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google has added a way for users to password-protect the Web and Activity page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Web and Activity page shows the user activity of all Google services such as search history, YouTube watch history, and Google Assistant history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without verification, anyone who has access to the account can view this data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To enable verification, users can go to activity.google.com and click on the &#8220;Manage My Activity&#8221; verification link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, users can password-protect their website and activity page by selecting the &#8220;Require Extra Verification&#8221; link and clicking &#8220;Save.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/24\/22452122\/google-my-activity-page-password-privacy-verification-web-and-app-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in The Verge.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is now allowing users to password-protect their search and watch history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}