Hi this is Russell Stannard from Teachertrainingvideos.com this video
is going to focus on the three most important settings in your privacy settings in google
this is ideal for teachers and for students anyone using google I'm gonna go through these three key
settings in quite a lot of detail so you really understand them and really understand what they
do really hope the video is useful and if it is please like it please share it with other teachers
and students and of course any comments leave them in the comments section let's get started
so the first thing you're going to need to do is to go to your google account so go to google.com
and then sign in to your gmail account that's normally the way that you access all of the
different options that you've got in google so i'm now logged in and i can see that because i've got
that little kind of icon there and if i click on that icon i can go to manage your google account
that is the one where once you're logged in and you'll see that you've got these four blocks
in fact there's a few more things underneath but there's four main blocks and now what we're going
to look at first of all is this button here now you might get a slightly different message under
here sometimes you get the chance to kind of do a privacy test but don't worry about that click here
and then just scroll down these little suggestions will be at the top of the screen we're not
interested in those we're interested in these key three things so let's start with the web google
tracks all your activity on the web it also tracks all your activity on other devices that
google uses um for example google maps when you're working on google drive etc but it also tracks
any activity you do on devices that are connected uh we often connect applications to google and it
also tracks those so let me take you through how you control what google tracks of your activity
first of all this shows you exactly what google is tracking okay and the first thing
is that it's traffic tracking your web activity in other words when you search on the internet
it's keeping a record of those sites for you okay now why is that useful well it's very useful if
you go back it will help you to do a search a lot quicker if you come in again and try to search for
that same website it obviously stores in that hit in your in the history you can therefore go back
and find it in the history you may want to turn this off let's imagine that we want to turn off
web activity so we don't want google to follow the websites that we search for exactly etc
so we're going to click on turned on we're going to click here okay in fact you can
okay just click here and you do have the option if you wanted to okay to actually turn that off
so that is where you would do that okay that's one really important thing to know now I'm going
to show you a couple of other things that you can do regarding tracking your visits on the internet
so notice that you can turn this button off here okay and if you do that what it basically means is
that other devices that are kind of connected to your google services are also tracking
your activity that would be when you're using google chrome or when you're using other apps
within the google suites so things like google drive when you're using perhaps google jamboard
when you're using perhaps your google maps etc okay and even other devices that are connected to
youtube for example when you log in to an account to another device using your google account to
login which is something we can do then also in that case it will be tracking your activity
you can also set auto delete so if I click here then I can automatically have content my searches
deleted after a certain amount of time at the moment I don't auto delete my activity but I
could do that I could click here and even set a period of time and say right every three months
I want all my content auto deleted okay that's a useful option I'm going to close that I'm going
to come down to another interesting one here manage activity now I'm going to click here
why would you want to manage activity well one thing is that you may want to actually
delete the fact that google has got the history of websites that you've already visited in the past
and you might decide that you want to delete that so if you notice here you can actually see
what you've been doing today or what you've been doing other days what you've been searching
on the internet for okay it will show you all your activity now if you click here notice that you can
delete activity by okay and you can click here and you could for example delete web and app activity
and I'm going to click here and choose all time okay and I can select all I can say so I've got
all of this activity that's taking place not all these devices that are connected to my
account including of course searching on google I can click on next okay and then I can delete
all of these okay which is what I'm going to do just to show you how that works just to show
you that you can actually if you want to delete all your activity then it is possible to do that
now if I close that down now okay click on close that down you'll notice hopefully that now there
isn't anything showing because all my activity has been deleted just a really quick break just
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thanks ever so much let's get back now to the video now we're going to take a quick look at
location history google can track your movements in other words if you make use of google maps
then you need to have location activity and it's also good if you want to track where your devices
are so that can be a useful security issue and it might be something that you're interested in just
simply keeping a record of where you're traveling around so let's just look at a couple of the
options when it comes to location whenever you're on a particular page you can always click up here
and then click on manage your account to bring you back yeah to that opening page because I
want to just quickly get back to the opening page sometimes you can do it from here as well you'll
see in a minute a couple of times when you can do it from here it allows you to jump straight
back but if I click here I come straight back to that page and again we're focusing on this
area okay the privacy settings which is absolutely vital that we understand these both as a teacher
and as a student and so far what we've done is we've looked in detail at that first one
now let's just jump over to the location history now in my case I've got this pause but if I click
here if I do want to turn on the location history then I do it here now why would you do the turn
on the location history well there are a number of reasons but one of the most obvious ones is
if you use google maps so for example when you're traveling around if you want recommendations about
local restaurants if you're using google maps even to travel from one location to the other then you
do need to have your location history on and it will provide you with additional information
so I don't have the location history on on this particular device but you can just turn
it on by clicking on that button and again you can manage your activity from this button here
finally we're going to look at the YouTube history every time you watch a video that can be tracked
it can be useful because you can actually go onto YouTube and go to the history and find the
video that you were watching two or three weeks ago which is one of the reasons I leave it on
it also helps me because it means that google knows the types of videos I like watching and
I find that useful you may want to turn it off or you may want to delete your history
I'm going to show you both let's look at that now now I've got my YouTube history turned on
and reason for that is that it simply knows more about who I am what I like watching and it means
therefore that if I click on YouTube it will make suggestions based on the information that it's got
again though if we click on this button it is possible for us to turn that off
okay and that will obviously influence the types of videos that are shown to you on the screen and
very similar to when we look on the internet and we're controlling the kind of internet browsing
etc if we click on auto delete here we do have the option of after a certain amount of time
deleting that activity I haven't got that set and exactly the same we can click on manage activity
as well and begin to control uh the videos that we want to delete so let's have a quick
look now then at how you can manage your activity on YouTube so we click here and you'll notice we
kind of had similar things we've got a record here of videos we've been visiting on YouTube
and we can also come up to here this is quite a useful button and remember we can delete activity
okay and then we can delete activity all of all time last day last hour or even set a custom range
that is a really important set of settings really worth teachers knowing about I'm really worth
students knowing about them great to pass that knowledge on to students it gives them much more
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