07/23 Update: Google has now closed down the Album Archive, but here's a way you can still download your data. Google is shutting down its Album Archive feature on July 19, taking with it any images ...

I've always known Google had a lot of information on me, but "a lot" is vague. I wanted to see the receipts. That's when I stumbled upon a tool hidden in plain sight: Google Takeout. It gave me a way ...

Google Takeout is a free tool created by the Google Data Liberation Front, a team within Google whose goal was to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. Takeout was ...