How Does Google Autofill Use Your Information

Google Autofill can be a useful tool. Actually, it can remember your passwords and account information for various websites, and your personal information such as your home address and credit card information for making purchases. Unfortunately, web browsers don’t automatically block you from malicious websites or even inform you of possible dangers. That means that you could go to a dangerous website that tries to access and collect your Autofill data. Google Autofill may be trying to be helpful. But in fact it could really be putting your personal information in jeopardy by trying to automatically fill out forms you click on, even if you did so by accident.

In order to have a private and safe browsing the internet on your phone, you should activate Anti-Hacking. By doing that you will be ensure that you never visit a malicious website or share your personal and important information on an unsafe site. Whenever you activate the Anti-Hacking, you will be secured and blocked from dangerous sites besides receiving notifications of insecure websites.

What Google Autofill Stores

Google Autofill can store your personal and important information like your name, phone number, email address, credit and debit cards, business address, and home address. However, it can store any information that you enter, such as if you use a friend’s address or personal information for ordering a package. Also, if a friend or a family member is logged into an account on your computer, Autofill may save their information, too. So it is not only your information in jeopardy of being stolen. The information it stores might be essential for you and also for the abusers who are waiting to take advantages of these situations.

Is Google Autofill Dangerous?

Whether you visit a malicious website or not, it can be dangerous to store your account and credit card information with Autofill. If your account is hacked, or if your phone or computer are stolen, then you have just given a hacker access to all of your account and financial information. They can easily access and view all of the information that you have stored with Chrome.

If you are worry about your personal information security, you should either restrict Autofill’s behavior, or else disable it altogether. In order to disable Google Autofill, you should go to Chrome’s settings, and after that you need to uncheck the box “enable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click.“

A Common Problem with Autofills

Earlier this year, it was reported that Google Autofill — in addition to other web browser and password manager’s autofills — was giving away users’ information to hidden, malicious text boxes on websites. Autofill didn’t need users’ approval before filling out a text box; even if a user intended to give only a name and email address to a website, Autofill would still automatically fill other boxes with your personal information. Or, it could provide unseen, malicious text boxes on the web page with your information. With all of these dangers it provides, we strongly recommend you to disable Autofill.

Disable and Clear Google Autofill Info in Your Browser

Here is how to disable the autofill options in some of the most popular web browsers in order to prevent this information from being unintentionally saved or used in your browser.

1. Google Chrome Instructions

In Google Chrome, you will want to not only turn off Autofill data, but also clear it. Instructions are listed below:

Turning Off Autofill in Chrome

1. First, you need to click the Chrome menu icon. (Three dots at top right of screen.)
2. Then click on Settings.
3. In the “Autofill” section, expand the area for which you wish to disable Autofill.
4. Now, toggle the setting OFF if it is on. The system will automatically save your settings.

Clearing Autofill Data in Chrome

1. Click the Chrome menu icon. (Three dots at top right of screen.)
2. Click on History, then click on History again in the menu that appears.
3. Select Clear browsing data.
   (Alternatively, you can press CTRL+SHIFT+DEL on your keyboard to bypass steps 1-3.)
4. At the top, choose “the beginning of time” option to clear all saved data.
5. In this step, make sure that the “Clear saved Autofill form data” option is checked.
6. Click Clear browsing data.

2. Firefox Instructions

For turning off Autofill data and clearing it in Firefox check the instructions below.

Turning off Autofill in Firefox

1. Click on the Firefox menu icon. (Three lines at top right of screen.)
2. Click on Options.
3. Choose “Privacy & Security.“
4. In the “Forms & Autofill” section uncheck “Autofill Addresses.“ Now the system will automatically save your settings.

Clearing Autofill Data in Firefox

1. Click on the Firefox menu icon. (Three lines at top right of screen.)
2. Click on “Privacy and Security.“
3. In the “History” section, click on the “Clear History” button.
   (Alternatively, you can press CTRL+SHIFT+DEL on your keyboard to bypass steps 1-3.)
4. In the “Time Range to Clear” dropdown menu, choose “Everything.”
5. Make sure “Form & Search History” is checked.
6. Finally, click Clear Now.

3. Safari Instructions

The below instructions are provided for you to not only turn off Autofill data in Safari, but also clear it. Let’s walk through them.

Turning off Autofill in Safari

1. Click on the Safari menu. (The word Safari at the top of the screen.)
2. After doing that you need to click on Preferences.
3. Choose AutoFill
4. Uncheck “Using info from my Contacts Card/Address Book Card” and “Other Forms”
5. Click Done.

Clearing Autofill Data in Safari

1. Click on the Safari menu. (The word Safari at the top of the screen.)
2. Click on Preferences.
3. Now choose AutoFill.
4. Next to “User Names and Passwords” click Edit.
5. Click Remove All or find any information stored for iClassPro.com and remove it specifically.
6. Finally, click Done.

4. Internet Explorer Instructions

You will want to not only turn off Autofill data, but also clear it in Internet Explorer. So what are the instructions? let’s see.

Turning off Autofill in Internet Explorer

1. Ar fist, you should click on the Tools menu icon. (Gear at top right of screen.)
2. Then, click on Internet Options.
3. Select the Content tab.
4. Next, in the AutoComplete section you need to click on Settings.
5. Uncheck Forms and User Names and Passwords on Forms.
6. Click OK in the AutoComplete Settings Window.
7. At last, you should click OK in the Internet Options Window.

Clearing Autofill Data in Internet Explorer

1. Click on the Tools menu icon. (Gear at top right of screen.)
2. Then click on Internet Options.
3. Select the Content tab.
4. In the AutoComplete section click on Settings.
5. At the bottom of the AutoComplete Settings window, click Delete AutoComplete History.
6. Check Form Data and Passwords.
7. Click Delete.
8. Click OK in the AutoComplete Settings Window.
9. Finally, you should click OK in the Internet Options Window.