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Google Dashboard brings security settings to the forefront
Between the Lines —
... For anyone who has ever complained about Google recording everything you do but has never gone to the trouble of adjusting your various privacy settings, I’d like to introduce you to Google Dashboard. Google Dashboard is a one-stop look into your settings for 20 Google different products and services - Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar and even Google-owned YouTube and Picasa. From there, you can access the settings - and view some analytics - for each of the products and change whichever ones you don’t like. From ...
Check What Google Knows About You With Google Dashboard
Google Blogoscoped —
... When’re at Google and switch to Settings → Google account settings you may now (if it’s already rolled out for you, that is) see a link to Google Dashboard reading “View data stored with this account”. After logging in with your credentials, Dashboard presents you with a detailed list of Google services and the associated data you’re storing with it. Each item, like Blogger, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Health and so on contains a couple of lines of sample data, as well as links to edit your profile for that service, view the ...
Google's new Dashboard sure would tie in nicely to Android, Chrome OS
Download Squad —
... While Dashboard is now live -- you can check yours out at https://www.google.com/dashboard -- what's being talked about by most sites is how this move is all about transparency and privacy controls. Heck, even the official post hits on those points: "In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard." ...
Google Dashboard Launches
I4U News —
... to and display information for all of the Google products you use on a single page. From one central area you'll be able to check your messages and chats received and sent, change your account settings for every product you use, and view any updates and changes that have occured. Mind-blowing and paradigm-shifting? No, not really. But that doesn't stop it from being useful. Just like Gmail, Google Docs, and YouTube, Google Dashboard is 100% free to use. To give it a look, visit here and log-in. I've taken dashboard for a spin and found it rather neat. For one thing, I'd ...
Google Puts All of Your Personal Info in One Place
WebProNews Feed —
... Google has launched what it calls the Google Dashboard, which is a central place Google users can go to find their data for different Google products they use when signed into a Google account. It also provides direct links to control your personal settings. ...
Google Dashboard Offers "Unprecedented" View of Stuff We Already Knew
Digital Daily —
... can rest a bit easier today now that they know what the search company knows about them. This morning Google (GOOG) rolled out Dashboard, a new service that consolidates user account information and settings for its various products onto a single page. “In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard,” ...
Google’s Privacy Dashboard: Another Major Step Forward in User Empowerment & Transparency
Technology Liberation Front —
... account in each of Google’s many products and in empowering users to easily manage their privacy settings for each product. If users decide they’d rather “take their ball and go home,” they can do that, too, by simply deleting their data.
Users can access the dashboard at www.google.com/dashboard (duh). Or, from the Google homepage, you just have to:
Click on Settings at the top right > Google Account Settings
Click on “View data stored with this account” next to “Dashboard”
Once you ...
Google's Privacy Dashboard: A Good Start, But Still Limited
ReadWriteWeb —
... the Google Dashboard. This new feature gives users a quick overview of the Google products they use and a slice of the data that is connected to these accounts. Google sells this as a way to enhance "transparency, choice and control," though it is important to note that none of this information is new. All of this data has been available in the respective applications before. The dashboard simply brings all of this data together in one place and gives users an easy way to access the privacy controls in the Google services they use. ...
Google Dashboard: One Service to Rule Them All
Webmonkey —
... If you’ve ever wanted to see all the Google services you use — and how you’re using them — in one spot, then the new Google Dashboard is exactly what you’ve been looking for. ...
Google's Privacy Dashboard: Another Major Step Forward in User Empowerment & Transparency
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog —
... to their account in each of Google's many products and in empowering users to easily manage their privacy settings for each product. If users decide they'd rather "take their ball and go home," they can do that, too, by simply deleting their data.
Users can access the dashboard at www.google.com/dashboard (duh). Or, from the Google homepage, you just have to:
Click on Settings at the top right > Google Account Settings
Click on "View data stored with this account" next to "Dashboard"
Once you log-in (for extra ...
How Much of Your Life Does Google Own? Dashboard Tells You [Google]
Gizmodo —
... It's an interesting question to consider, especially if you use consider just how many Google services you might use: Gmail, Reader, Maps, GTalk, YouTube, Latitude, Calendar, Contacts and oh yeah, Search. Dashboard shows you everything Google knows about you. ...
New Google Dashboard lets you manage privacy data.
The Raw Feed —
... Google unveiled today a new service called Google Dashboard. The site tells you what data Google collects about you, and lets you "manage" that data. ...
Google Shows You What It Knows about You
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Google has taken another step towards transparency about how it uses all the information it collects about you and which you give it to store with Google Dashboard. The single location shows a summary of data stored for most services Google operates associated with a particular account of yours (I have two for structural and historical reasons). ...
Google Dashboard displays your Google addiction
DVICE Atom Feed —
... for Google Apps accounts (where you can use your own custom domain name), which is beginning to seem like a poor stepchild to Google when it rolls out new features.
We like the idea of controlling all of our Google activities in one easy to find location. Some of our buddies are really worried about computing in the cloud, and are particularly concerned about handing over their personal data and documents to Google. Not us. How about you, readers?
Google Dashboard, via Official Google Blog
Why is Google Dashboard being dubbed a privacy tool?
Gizmos for Geeks —
... Google Dashboard is being labeled a ‘privacy tool’ by the media. I don’t understand why.Sure, it’s a nice tool that shows you on one page all of your Google accounts/products and their latest statuses. ...
Vint Cerf: 'Google doesn't know who you are'
The Register —
... But Google's servers do - and when a subpoena or national security letter arrives on the doorstep, you can certainly be identified. You can be identified even if you search while logged out. Google still tracks your IP address. And as much as the company likes to say that an IP address is not personal information , we can safely say that's nonsense. Just before Cerf landed his Chewbacca defense on conference attendees in San Francisco, Google unveiled a new " Dashboard " that ostensibly explains what Google knows about you. But this is merely the ...
Google Dashboard — How Much Do They Know About You?
The iPhone Blog —
... Google Dashboard gives you one handy, dandy place to keep track of all your Google stuff. Let’s face it, more than any other device, the iPhone is the mobile internet. Google — well it is the internet. If you’re a big Google user, they know what you search for, the contents of your Gmail, the appointments in your Google Calendar, the data in your Google Docs, your Google Latitude coordinates, and who knows what else… ...
