Google "Dashboard" Latest Privacy Control

Web Use Collected, Displayed on Single Page

(AP)  Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.

The "Dashboard" feature unveiled Thursday pulls together all the data that pour into Google's computers whenever Web surfers log in to one of the company' services.

That includes summaries of an individual's e-mail, search requests and viewing habits on Google's video site, YouTube. Before, a user would have to check multiple places for all that.

The snapshot doesn't include any activity that occurs when a person isn't logged into a Google service.

Dashboard represents Google Inc.'s latest step to give its users more control over their personal information and appease privacy watchdogs.

[incog-nito]

Sounds more like a tool that lets users know how LITTLE privacy they actually have.

[clarencebev]

Gather the info and sell it.

[TrickynWV]

A) I don't want Google or anyone else collecting information on me.
B) Google should get a mass boycott for doing these things.
C) Ditto for Yahoo, Microsoft, and any other corporation that thinks they should be the morality police.
D) Hey Google, write this down: I'm getting ready to take a dump, and your logo is painted on the bottom of my commode

[cidaia]

When the mass boycott comes, I'll join

Not that I think they care one tiny bit about being the morality police. Their reasons for collecting information on us are 100% pure business.

[pinoytutorial]

To some - google dashboard could be a handy tool for their busy life, but to a geek who work
in total privacy this could be a real threat to their security -
As said from the mouth of Microsoft CEO:

"Google reads your gmail account once ina while" when you're under scrutiny.

detailed review: http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/google-dashboard-googles-biggest-spy-unleash-on-your-account/

[Vet_Turner]

by metomjr November 5, 2009 1:38 PM EST ---

Are you serious? That you don't care that they're using databases to keep tabs of everything you do and write on the web? My god man. Just because they can does not make it any of their business. And no, I don't do anything illegal on the web but by the way it is compiled, could in some camps look embarrassing.

[metomjr]

The only people that complain about privacy online are those that are doing things they shouldn't. Like I've said in the past, if the government wants to listen to my phone calls, or if they want to track my vehicle movements with GPS, or see what I'm searching for on Google, they can go right ahead. I'm not doing anything that I shouldn't be.

[cidaia]

All right, you're not doing anything you shouldn't be, but how would you like having that information collected, packaged, and sold or otherwise distributed, so that corporations, governments, or other powerful entities can have more power to manipulate individuals, groups, or communities?

[cidaia]

also criminals gain access to all that collected information. how many times have you read in the last year about some company losing a laptop, disk, or flash drive full of sensitive information?