
If you use Google products, there’s a really easy way to download everything you have stored on the company’s servers.
This is particularly important if you ever decide to quit Google and delete your account entirely, but still want a record of your Google Calendar, an archive of the pictures in Google Photos or a copy of everything in Gmail. It’s also useful if you want a reminder of everything Google knows about you.
We already showed you how to download a copy of everything Facebook knows about you. Now here’s how to download an archive of your footprint on Google.
It knows a lot, particularly if you use its services such as Google Maps or search. It knows your name, gender, birthday, personal cell phone numbers, and possibly where you work, where you’ve been over the past several years, the types of hobbies you enjoy and more.
In the archive you’re about to download, you’ll get a copy of nearly everything Google has stored on its servers, including Gmail contacts, Chrome bookmarks, transactions from various Google services, locations stored in Google Maps, and more.
It’s not hiding that it knows this — a quick peek at its privacy policy makes it crystal clear that Google knows this information — but it might be surprising just how much it knows.
Go here to download your copy today of everything Google knows!