Google rolls out new privacy tools for Maps, YouTube and Assistant – TechCrunch

Google today announced a handful of new consumer privacy tools for some of its most-used products, including Google Maps, YouTube and Google Assistant. The tools are meant to better allow users to control, manage and erase the data Google collects from those who use its services or prevent Google from collecting that data in the first place, in some cases. In Google Maps, there's now an incognito mode option that works similar to the one available in the Chrome browser and, more recently, YouTube . The idea is that there are times when you don't want Google to track your usage of Maps, including when you search for particular places or travel about town. There are a number of reasons why you might want to opt-out of being tracked in Maps -- maybe you don't want to taint your personalized recommendations with irrelevant data.