# Google Privacy Settings

Share as less data as possible with google. Here are my recommendations for how to configure your google settings.

**1.** Go to your [Google Dashboard](https://myaccount.google.com/dashboard)

**2.** Change the following services:

- Calendar (export and delete all existing calendars) \[only on switch to other calendar service\]
- Contacts (export and delete all existing contacts) \[only on switch to other contact service\]
- Photos (export and delete all photos) \[if you want cloud backup of your photos, use something like nextcloud\]
- Drive (export and delete all data) \[use something like nextcloud\]

**3.** Change your activity data

- Search Activity: off ([delete existing data](https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity?restrict=waa&hl=en_AU)) \[don't forget to change your search engine to duckduckgo\]
- Location History: off ([delete existing data](https://www.google.com/maps/timeline))
- Device Information: off ([delete existing data](https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=devices))
- <div><div>Voice &amp; Audio Activity: off ([delete existing data](https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity?restrict=vaa&hl=en_AU))</div></div>

<div id="bkmrk-4.-turn-ad-personali">**4.** Turn [Ad personalisation](https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated) off</div>