If you are using a website logged in, say google.com. All your activity on google (and beyond with things like cookies, trackers, fingerprinting, browser type - but that’s for another article) are logged and used for personalization.
This could potentially pose a risk to your privacy. The great thing is most major platforms nowadays offer individuals a way to opt-out of this logging.
Here are ways to protect your personal information:
Go to Google.com. Click on the account icon on top right hand corner and click on manage your Google Account
Select Data and Privacy in the left hand navigation
Pause: Web & App Activity, Location History, Youtube History
Turn off: Ad personalization and Personal results in Search
Audit third-party apps that have access to your google data and remove the ones you don’t use or recognize
Audit third-party apps that have access to your google data and remove the ones you don’t use or recognize
