How to Tell Google Now to Stop Peeking

It used to be that every new phone was heralded as "the iPhone killer." Now the preoccupation is with "the Siri killer," the app that will replace the sometimes frustrating Siri personal assistant on the iPhone.

The latest and most notable entry is Google Now, an app that anticipates what information you might want and puts it on your phone screen before you ask for it. Google Now has been on Android phones since June of last year, and it was added to the iPhone Google Search app last month.

It can seem wonderfully prescient or intrusively creepy, but there is an easy adjustment if you don’t like the feeling that Google is watching your every move.

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