[LINK] RFC: How to ask Google to delete everything?

[Roger Clarke]

Can subscribers to this list please advise (on-list or off-list) how 
to tell Google that you want everything deleted?

Multiple people have enquired, and the APF can't answer the question.

I avoid logging-in, and hence I'm not familiar with what's available 
inside the service.

1.  When APF did its Policy Statement on 29 Jan, all we could say was:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/Google-TP12.html
>  ... current Term 13.2 says that you must notify Google "in writing, 
>to Google's address which is set out at the beginning of these 
>Terms" [i.e. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043].
>The absence of an email-address or even a web-form means that you 
>have to use the postal service.
>In addition, it may be that you have to take separate actions in 
>respect of each service.

2.  The media have been told that you should go to:
http://google.com/history
 From this screen-shot, it doesn't seem to be at all helpful:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/GoogleHistory-120301.tiff

3.  I suggested on air that an email to mailto:iflynn at google.com was 
appropriate, explaining (politely) that you want everything deleted.


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