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Google Privacy Checkup

[Your Name], complete your Privacy Checkup

Robert E. Van Cleef

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If you received an email message that looks like it came from Google, but you are not sure, here is how to verify that it is safe.

Take a Privacy Checkup

We’ll walk you through key privacy settings step-by-step to help you choose what’s right for you.

From: Google Account <*protected email*>

This is a message from Google to help verify that you have personally checked your privacy preferences and that you officially give permission to Google to track your personal data.

If you click on the Start Now button, you should see something like this.

It will lead you through a review of your key settings & the data Google uses to personalize your experience using screen such as this one.

If it doesn’t look like this, then I would worry. However, if it looks like this, I would expect it to be safe. Clicking on the two links should…

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Robert E. Van Cleef
Robert E. Van Cleef

Written by Robert E. Van Cleef

I am an SOB: Son of a Bos’n — Sailor, Preacher, Advocate, Computer Geek.

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