Google has been launching so many new services lately that it’s been difficult to keep up. Their Dashboard service is designed to show exactly how much the search giant knows about its users daily online activities.
This service displays a summary of data collect from a specified Google account. Users are afforded the options to sort and manage data collected from a huge array of sources. Data collected ranges from search queries and emails to video usage on YouTube. Users will usually have already allowed consent for Google to keep information about their activities online, now the search behemoth has grasped even more data, ever wonder how much Google actually has on each of us. Just how much information do they have about us? How do they use it?
The service provides a summary of data associated with a specified Google account. Users gain the ability to view and manage data, which ranges from search engine queries and emails sent through Gmail through to videos viewed on YouTube, and much else besides. Users will usually have already consented to allow Google to keep tabs on their activities online, but the search conglomerate’s tentacles reach so far that it’s tough to know just how much information it holds on each of us.
Google Dashboard – which is built to handle privacy concerns over Google’s propensity to catalogue data – The dashboard is accessed by signing into your Google account. Users will retrieve a master list with the items on each particular services (Calenders, Blogs, Youtube, Gtalk, Gmail etc. etc.)Hot linked to the container for each services for more details. Pretty slick G.
The Dashboard service does try to answer the question of what Google collects in relation to online activities, they do not really provide much information about the ways Google uses this information. For certain one thing not included in the description is the usage of cookie-based data Google collects from it’s ad-sense business.
As it is, Google Dashboard could contain a lot of sensitive information, giving users yet another good reason to believe in (strong) passwords on their gmail and other Internet accounts.
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