User and event data retention You can choose how long Analytics retains data before automatically deleting it. The maximum amount of time that Analytics will retain Google-signals data is 26 months, regardless of your settings.
Information retained until your Google Account is deleted
We keep some data for the life of your Google Account if it's useful for helping us understand how users interact with our features and how we can improve our services.
After the data is marked for deletion and any recovery period has expired, the data is deleted successively from Google's active and backup storage systems.
Unless you've disabled it, Google Activity has been keeping a record of your online activity for the last decade. It knows every link you've followed, every image you've clicked on, and the URLs you've entered in the address bar (even if you've been clearing your browser search history regularly).
Search history FAQ. How long does Google retain Google Workspace search history data? By default, Google deletes this data after 18 months. However, your users can change the deletion period to 3, 18, or 36 months, or to never delete data.
If You Use Google Products
If you do use Google products, they try to track even more. In addition to tracking everything you've ever searched for on Google (e.g. “weird rash”), Google also tracks every video you've ever watched on YouTube. Many people actually don't know that Google owns YouTube; now you know.
Recover deleted internet history through System Restore
If the internet history was deleted recently, then system restore will recover it. To get system restore up and running you can go to the “start” menu and do a search for system restore which will take you to the feature.
Internet Service Providers can track and store everything you do online, including browsing history. This extends to the videos you watch, and the websites you visit - even in private browsing mode. In most countries, ISPs can track and store this information, and the retention period may range from 90 days to 3 years.
This includes your browsing history, the videos you watch, and the websites you visit – even in private browsing mode. In most countries, ISPs can track and store this information for up to two years. The data is used for law enforcement, targeted advertising, and even bandwidth throttling.
On your computer, open Chrome. History. On the left, click Clear browsing data. Select how much history you want to delete.
When you delete a message, it stays in your trash for 30 days. After that time, it will be permanently deleted from your account and can't be recovered.
Step 1: Learn what deleting your account means
You'll lose all the data and content in that account, like emails, files, calendars, and photos. You won't be able to use Google services where you sign in with that account, like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, or Play.
Yes, according to Google, it has the right to remove your items stored on Google Drive if you are inactive for a long period of time – 2 years.
You can manually delete all activity from My Activity or filter by date and product to delete activity items or groups of activity. You can always delete activity manually, even if automatic deletion is turned on. You can delete your Google Account or delete a Google service.
You're in control of what information you share with Google when you search. To browse the web privately, you can use private browsing, sign out of your account, change your custom results settings, or delete past activity.
Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to deliver our services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalize content and ads you see on Google and on our partners' sites and apps.
You'll need to have enabled the web history in the past, and you must log in with the Google account used in Chrome. Once you log in, you'll find a "Filter by Date" option where you can select the target date and see account activities such as visited websites from that date.
But deleting digital data—including clearing browser history—can result in federal felony obstruction of justice charges under 18 U.S.C. § 1519, the federal anti-shredding statute, which carries a 20-year maximum penalty.
What If I Delete My Browsing History On My Device? Deleting your browsing history is like deleting your email's “Sent” folder. On your end, it's gone, but the information has already been sent. Your information is on the WiFi owners' router logs, even if you have cleared it on your end.
The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 requires telecommunications companies to retain a particular set of telecommunications data for at least 2 years. These obligations ensure Australia's law enforcement and security agencies are lawfully able to access data, subject to strict controls.
In order to be as safe as possible online, it is necessary to delete your search history frequently. Failing to do so makes it much easier for hackers to collect enough of your personal information to scam and deceive you.
If the content has been removed, and still shows up in a google search, this indicates the content (snapshot of the page) has been cached. If content was deleted from a site but still shows up in Google search results, the page description or cache might be outdated.
Why Google Is Everywhere (and Keeping Tabs on You) It's hardly surprising that Google collects data from those who use its products and services; be it through search, YouTube, email, maps, or Chrome.
This article is for administrators who want to recover files permanently deleted by users from Google Drive. To restore files for your own account, go to Find or recover a file. As an administrator, you can recover deleted items from Google Drive within 25 days after a user empties their trash.
When you delete any file or folder in your Google Drive, it is moved to the trash folder. The deleted file stays in trash for 30 days and then it is permanently deleted. You can right-click the deleted file in the trash bin and select Restore to undelete the file.