If you have a device that is used for personal or work purposes, it is important to delete all activity and security events on it. This will help protect your device from potential damage or theft. To delete activity and security events on a device, follow these steps:
- Open the Settings app and navigate to the Security section.
- Under “Device Activity,” select “Delete.”
- Under “Security Events,” select “Delete.”
What is device event tracking?
Device activity and event tracking feature was introduced in Android 5.x (API level 22) to track security events on your phone, such as application installations or uninstallations. It also captures some other information about installed apps, device settings changes, network connections and more. This data can be used for troubleshooting app issues and help you investigate potentially harmful apps. All the collected information is uploaded to Google’s servers with an encrypted signature ( see full privacy policy ). We send only analytics-related info by default but we give users complete control over their data: you can opt out of sending any kind of information right from Security settings > Device Activity & Event Tracking . You can always delete the existing data from Settings > Security > Device Activity & Event Tracking . By default there is a weekly upload limit ( you can’t go over this limit ), but in some rare cases, you may see your uploaded events piling up waiting to be sent. In that case please wait up to 24 hours for your recent events to be uploaded or manually send them by tapping Upload security events in settings.
If you have an android cell phone, chances are that Google has been logging information about all your activities on the device. This includes every app you’ve opened, how long you used it for (including in what order), and at what time of day this took place.
Google collects this data so they can target advertisements to you more effectively but many people aren’t comfortable with the amount of information that is being collected and shared about them without any way to opt-out or delete one’s history. For these individuals, there is now a game-changing new free application called “MyActivity” available from Google Play The app allows you to see all the activity that your android device has recorded and also allows you to delete any and all of this information at will.
I’ve installed MyActivity on my phone as well as a test account I created for testing purposes. Immediately after installation, MyActivity showed me a chronological list of every time I unlocked my phone, including the date and time of day as well as which apps were opened at that time (in order). It is startling how much Google knows about what you’re doing on your android phone from one single access point: each time you unlock it with a preconfigured pin or pattern lock. This data can then be used to correlate an entire host of other items such as.
