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Google Watch: Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics
Computerworld Blogs - Security: Google Dashboard: Convenient, useful, but no big deal
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Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics
Google Watch —
... Okay, privacy critics: What do you think of this feature? Dashboard is so obviously the byproduct of your table pounding, as Google Software Engineer Alma Whitten, who focuses on privacy and security at the company that is perhaps the most scrutinized for privacy and security, wrote: ...
Google Dashboard: Convenient, useful, but no big deal
Computerworld Blogs - Security —
... is touted in today's Official Google Blog as an effort to provide users "with greater transparency and control over their own data." All very laudable. I fired up the Dashboard to see what Google knew about me, and what I might need to tweak. The result was pretty -- well, not disappointing, but uninspiring. If you're a conscious Google user -- in other words, if you are careful about what you make public and what you keep private; about what you share and what you don't -- there won't be many surprises here. Google Dashboard gives you a rundown of the settings of your ...
Google Dashboard: Will You Need a Warrant for That?
GigaOM —
... for all of their data, the company is offering a chance to see everything it knows about you all in one place called Google Dashboard. Except that much of this was already available before to people who viewed their web history on Google (something I do when trying to grab maps that I look up often). But now the company has put this all in a Dashboard and made it easier for everyone to find it. ...
Dashboard shows what Google knows about you
Netflash —
... in its servers about them. "Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users. Today, with hundreds of millions of people using those products around the world, we are very aware of the trust that you have placed in us, and our responsibility to protect your privacy and data," said Google in a blog post today. "In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard." The company said the Dashboard is set up so that users can control the personal settings in each Google ...
Google Dashboard - It Is Like Having Your FBI File
CloudAve —
Google today announced the release of Google Dashboard, an interface from which you can essentially manage your life Google life. According to Google, this offers more control to users In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal ...
Google Creates Privacy Dashboard
WSJ.com: Digits —
... In a blog post, Google executives said the new service was designed to provide consumers “greater transparency and control over their own data.” “We are very aware of the trust you have placed in us, and our responsibility to protect your privacy and data,” the blog post read. ...
Google Dashboard: Transparent, maybe. Private? No.
Netflash —
... gathers up almost every Google service you've signed up for and displays the most basic settings for each on a single page. Here's how The Official Google Blog describes it: In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. [ Even the Great Googley Moogley stumbles from time to time, as Cringley notes in " ...
Google Dashboard: Transparent, maybe. Private? Not so much
Robert X. Cringely's blog —
... gathers up almost every Google service you've signed up for and displays the most basic settings for each on a single page. Here's how The Official Google Blog describes it: In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. [ Even the Great Googley Moogley stumbles from time to time, as Cringley notes in " ...

