Protect Digital Privacy with Decluttering

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If you're worried about your digital privacy, here's how to delete old messages

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Your long-forgotten digital footprint could be more revealing and sensitive than you realize.

Chats are a good place to start your digital decluttering.

You probably have a digital attic full of old data that you can delete or download and save offline.

If you're worried about possible expansions of government surveillance and access to your information, there are a few concrete steps to protect your privacy.

Gchat was fully integrated with Gmail and wasn't a separate platform.

After May 2013 , Google migrated Gchat users to Hangouts , and that history has come forward into what is now Google Chat .

To find them now, open Gmail and search for the phrase in:chats (using no quotation marks) Hundreds or thousands of chats from May 2013 and earlier may pop up.

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