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Dashboard Reveals What Google Knows About You
CWmike writes "Ever wonder exactly what Google knows about you? Google took a step today to answer that question with the unveiling of Google Dashboard, which is designed to let users see and control the copious amounts of data that Google has stored 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,' Google said 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.' Dashboard is set up so that users can control the personal settings in each Google product that they use. Google said the tool supports more than 20 products, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts and Google Latitude. Consumer Watchdog said in a statement today that it applauds Google for giving users a single place to go to manage their data. But at the same tine, the group also came down hard on Google, contending that it needs to give users a vehicle for stopping the company from collecting any personal data."
Not to look down on the efforts made by Google to prevent attacks, but doesn't this pose a huge security risk? The payload from being able to hack into a users profile from this service would be huge...
Duh.
The general atmosphere here on slashdot is to assume the worst that can happen, even if it goes against available evidence.
I've always been amused by their presumption that *somebody* is interested in your data. Among the millions of people who has typed in that google search box, *somebody* wants to know the kinky porn stuff you're into. Never occurs to them that in fact nobody gives a damn.
It's all down to egoism really. The I AM SO FUCKING IMPORTANT THAT THE WHOLE WORLD WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT ME.
Don't quote me on this.
Can you think of Internet without using Google's Services?
GP was being sardonic. You can't possibly "'not using a company's products and services' in order to prevent them from collecting data." unless you want to become a hermit.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
The problem is, the paranoid people who care about the dashboard still haven't figure out that no one really gives a shit what they do on the Internet.
They are still under the assumption that someone actually cares what they do.
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