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Question

Chrome Browser History

Sep 21, 2017 5:22PM PDT

Good evening,

I just realized that I logged into my personal gmail account on my work computer. This email account is perfectly safe for work, however I did notice on my phone that my browser history from what I searched at work was now synced with Chrome on my phone. I quickly logged out at work. Are the network or sys admins at my work able to look back and see my browser history (that was logged during time at home) since I logged into gmail and evidently Chrome at work? There were definitely some items in my browser history that I wouldnt want my work to know about given I did not search for them at work. I only logged into Chrome not realizing that it would sync browser history with what I had on my phone. Thanks for any answers to calm my nerves here.

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Can't answer. Why?
Sep 21, 2017 5:44PM PDT

We don't know how much effort your company put into monitoring but this history flows over the company network and then into the HDD of the work machine. Time to clean that off and hope for the best.

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Not sure if I was clear
Sep 21, 2017 5:51PM PDT

Why would that history flow over the company network if I were only logging into the account. That history is saved on my personal chrome account which they would not have access to without my password. When I signed out of that account there was no history to be seen from my personal account while on the work computer. Also I did not visit any of the sites while at work so there should have been no traffic passing over the company network. Am I correct in this estimation?

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Here's why.
Sep 22, 2017 10:01AM PDT

For the history to show in Chrome it has to go from Google to this PC. If you were on the company network, all that traveled on the company network. So while you didn't go to the sites, the history information did or else you wouldn't be asking.

So no to the no traffic, but yes the sites themselves would not automatically update or be pinged.

So again, the moment we sign into our account on Chrome, Chrome syncs our Chrome with many things like history, settings, menus and all that did traverse the company network.

-> As I can't know how much the company network admin logs, I can't tell you what they collected.