I've always known Google had a lot of information on me, but "a lot" is vague. I wanted to see the receipts. That's when I stumbled upon a tool hidden in plain sight: Google Takeout. It gave me a way ...

It should not come as a surprise that Google collects plenty of data on you. Once you create a Google account, the service automatically stores a lot of user activity logs on its servers, no matter ...

Google Takeout is a free tool created by the Google Data Liberation Front, a team within Google whose goal was to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. Takeout was ...

Google has committed to adding new data transfer capabilities to Takeout, including for YouTube, next year in response to an investigation by Italian competition regulators. According to Reuters, this ...