People should be thoughtful of using My Activity because destroying your Google history in litigation may lead to a claim of spoliation (destruction of evidence) when using Google’s recently launched My Activity which “is a central place to view and manage activity like searches you’ve done, websites you’ve visited, and videos you’ve watched.” My Activity specifically allows the following activities which can be deleted:
- Delete items individually
- Delete related activity
- Delete activity using search & filters
- Delete activity from a certain day or time period
- Delete everything in My Activity
All together My Activity allows the following controls:
- Control what activity gets saved to your account
- “Device Information” setting
- Delete searches & other activity from your account
- See and control your search & browsing activity
- Google Voice & Audio Activity
- Manage and delete your Location History
- Manage your watch history
- View or delete search history
How can you use this to help control your Google history while at the same time not spoliating evidence?