Heads up for all of the Google Workspace customers on the market: beginning on the finish of subsequent month, you’re going to wish to take a number of further steps to delete your information off the platform.

Historically, Google customers have been been capable of tweak the methods the tech large tracks them throughout the online utilizing their “Web & Activity Settings,” which lets any Googler—on Workspace or in any other case—flip off the corporate’s skill to trace their exercise throughout completely different websites and providers, their location, and extra. Workspace admins have been additionally capable of robotically flip on and off exercise monitoring for the customers of their group.

That’s all altering on March twenty ninth, in keeping with a new FAQ posted on Google’s Workplace administrator discussion board. At the tip of that month, the corporate will probably be including a brand new characteristic—“Workspace search history”—that may proceed to trace these clients, even when they, or their admins, flip exercise monitoring off.

The worst half? Unlike Google’s exercise trackers which might be politely defaulted to “off” for all customers, this new Workplace-specific characteristic will probably be defaulted to “on,” throughout Workspace apps like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet, and extra.

Google, for its half, is fast to observe within the FAQ that it “never uses your data in Google Workspace core services for advertising.” But given the corporate’s notoriously shitty popularity for dealing with folks’s information and this new, underhanded means that it’s planning on hoovering it up, suffice to say there’s gonna be customers uncomfortable with the brand new setting.

Luckily, they will flip this selection off in the event that they need to, the identical means they might flip off exercise settings till now. According to Google, the choice to take action will probably be proper on the “My Activity” page as soon as the characteristic goes reside, proper alongside the present choices to flip off Google’s skill to maintain tabs on their net exercise, location historical past, and YouTube historical past. On this web page, Google says the choice to show off Workspace historical past will probably be positioned on the far lefthand facet, underneath the “Other Google Activity” tab.

While you’re shopping by that tab, you would possibly need to delete a number of the different information that the tech large’s collected on you, like your Google Podcasts episode queue, info you’ve shared with Google Assistant, or all of the instances you’ve used Google seek for dictionary or pronunciation assist. The choice to delete Workspace isn’t on the web page (but), however by the tip of subsequent month, Google guarantees you’ll be capable to delete it from there, too.