Although Google is a frequent topic when discussing online privacy, the company offers features to protect your data in its My Activity panel.

From the My Activity page you not only see what Google is tracking, you can also take steps to delete data and prevent future collection.

How do I view my activity? Making sure you’re signed in to your Google account, search “Google My Activity” and arrive on this landing page.

Google now allows you to password-protect your Google account's My Activity page so that others sharing your device can't snoop on your online activity.

Google tracks everything you do online consistently, including your search keywords and app activity. Your Activity page allows you to decide what stays and what is deleted.

You can use the Google Activity Controls Dashboard to manage and edit your stored web & app, location or YouTube activity.

Once this is done, any time you navigate back to activity.google.com you’ll need to enter your Google password even if you are already logged in before you can see any of your search histories.

On the Google My Activity page, one of the very first controls shown is Web & App Activity. Google will soon break up that setting with a new “Workspace search history” preference. Expand ...

How to scrub your Google history in seconds Google’s new My Activity feature shows you what all you’ve been up to.

Try this very useful tool to manage all your activity on Google and increase your privacy. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Google search adds activity cards to make browsing your history easier Pick up where you left off or avoid going over the same results.