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The Google Dashboard allows you to view and control data associated with the different products you use with your Google Account.
Official Google Blog: Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!
googleblog.blogspot.com — Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your account — easily and concisely in one ... (more) Official Google Blog: Transparency, choice and control ...
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Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics
Google Watch — Google made another move to assuage the concerns of privacy critics Nov. 5, with the Google Dashboard, which provides a summary of the application data associated with Google accounts. Account summaries appear on the left, with links to manage those accounts (and delete data) listed cleanly on the right. The Dashboard is organized into different sections according to which Google products and services users access when they are signed into their account: Google Dashboard lets users see an up-to-date total of how many Gmail e-mails they have sent and received, along with how many attachments they have: ...

Google Dashboard: Now You Know What Google Knows About You
Mashable! — There’s no two ways about it: if you use a lot of Google services, then Google knows a lot about you. Google has received a solid amount of criticism because of this, and they’ve decided to alleviate the issue by launching Privacy Dashboard; a one-stop-shop with all the information that Google knows about you and your online habits collected in one place. Dashboard covers more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and others. It’s quite a scary list; personally, I’m using all of these, and I ...

Google Dashboard Provides a Top-Down Look at Your Google Use [Google]
Lifehacker — [image] Ever wanted to take a step back and look at all the Google apps and data you're hooked into? Google's offering that top-down view with Google Dashboard, a central clearinghouse for app settings, privacy information, and use statistics. The main value to the average user at the Dashboard, reachable at kevin@lifehacker.com ...

Google's new Dashboard sure would tie in nicely to Android, Chrome OS
Download Squad — Filed under: OS Updates, News, Web services, Google, Open Source When a few blog sites yesterday happened upon Google's YouTube video of the new Dashboard, they moved quickly to pull it down. Though the original video is still MIA, Google made an ...

Google Finally Creates a Dashboard to Manage Your Google Life
Search Engine Roundtable — One of the more obvious complaints about Google is not about their products but rather how to find all their products and manage how you have access to those products. Google just launched the Google Dashboard which brings many - not all - of this in one place. The Dashboard includes over "20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and many more." Here is a video demo on how it works: A WebmasterWorld thread has early discussion around this topic. Right now, the feedback includes "it's about time" and "Well, it is a start..." Forum ...

Google Offers "Transparency" in the Form of a Dashboard
AppScout — That whole "don't be evil" thing is all well and good, but when a company's whole goal is cataloging the world's information, it would--at the very least--be nice to know what Google knows about you. The company has just launched Dashboard, which aggregates the different information its gathered from 20 different Google products, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, and Latitude. You'll need to sign in to view your own personal information. Users can also edit account information from the page, such as privacy ...

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. "Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users," the company says. "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. In the past, we've taken numerous steps in this ...

Look At Yourself In Google's Mirror
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Google’s Privacy Dashboard: Another Major Step Forward in User Empowerment & Transparency
Technology Liberation Front — Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot Privacy Dashboard, so hot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Privacy Dashboard Should ever be forgot. Sorry, I couldn’t resist, this being Guy Fawkes day (a major traditional holiday for Britons and, more recently, geeky American libertarians such as myself). Google’s announcement of its Privacy Dashboard (TechCrunch) is a major step forward in both informing users about what data Google has tied to their account in each of ...

Google's Privacy Dashboard: A Good Start, But Still Limited
ReadWriteWeb — Earlier this morning, Google launched 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. Sponsor The ...

Google Dashboard: Good–But More Explanation, Please
Technologizer — Just how much Google do you have in your life? Now Google is giving you a tool to help answer that question: Google Dashboard, which puts personal information relating to twenty Google services you may be using on one page. Dashboard includes everything from the number of conversations in your Gmail inbox to how many people ...

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 Dashboard is a one-stop shop for browsing through of almost all the Google services you’re using and, by extension, shows you everything Google knows about you. The nice thing about the new dashboard is that it gives you central way to manage and control that data — change privacy settings, control sharing and limit what data Google stores about you. Each service listed in your dashboard contains an ...

Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
Gawker: valleywag — Today Google rolled out the "Google Dashboard," which is supposed to "protect your privacy" by offering control panels for the company's many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. You might know Google owns YouTube, GMail, GChat, Google News, Google Docs and Google Reader, but the full privacy impact probably hasn't hit you until you look at the information from all those services condensed into one place, on this dashboard thing. Oh look, it's the last person you chatted with, the last person you emailed, the last video you ...

Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
Valleywag — Today Google rolled out the "Google Dashboard," which is supposed to "protect your privacy" by offering control panels for the company's many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. You might know Google owns YouTube, GMail, GChat, Google News, Google Docs and Google Reader, but the full privacy impact probably hasn't hit you until you look at the information from all those services condensed into one place, on this dashboard thing. Oh look, it's the last person you chatted with, the last person you emailed, the last video you ...

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. It shows your most recent searches, last conversations in Google Talk, most recent location—basically, it summarizes all of the info you have poured into every Google service you use, so you can see it at glance. It's kind of starting, actually. From the Dashboard, you can drill down into every app to look at the info more ...

Google Dashboard launched
Boy Genius Report — Ever wonder how much of your personal information you’ve willingly donated to Google over the past 11 years? Today, Google announced the launch of a new product to help you find out, and it’s titled Google Dashboard. The Dashboard allows you to view all facets of your Google life: Gmail, Google Calendar, web history, what mobile phones are syncing with your account, YouTube, and more. You can view your purchase history in Google Checkout, see that you have an Orkut account that you didn’t know about, and see how many people have called your Google Voice number. It’s a nice gesture but this is all the ...

Google dashboard
Geek In Disguise — A short video that I think is designed to be instructional but also shows you just how much Google stores about you.

Google Dashboard Launched
Binary Head — Today Google announced Google Dashboard, a simple view into the data associated with your account. “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. Today, the Dashboard covers more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, ...

Google Dashboard: All Your Data That Are Belong To Us
VentureBeat — OK, so all that personal data doesn’t really belong to Google, but it would be nice to know how much the search giant has on us — embarrassing e-mails, search histories and all. The company released a dashboard today that shows all the data it has from the Google products you use. That includes Gmail, Docs, Web History and YouTube among others. For example in the Gmail category, Google tells you how many e-mails you’ve sent and received and how many conversations you’ve had through its chat client. The dashboard is also a central hub with links out to the privacy settings on all of these ...

Google Releases Dashboard to Show You How Much Data You Have Stored In the Cloud
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — We all know Google has a lot of information about us. Now there’s a way to have all that data laid out before you in terrifying detail. Google Dashboard is the search giant’s new site aimed at increasing user control over personal information. The Dashboard is available in your account settings page (or just  go here), and kept behind an additional sign-in page. Once logged in, you’ll see all the Google services you use along with a summary of its use. There is currently support of more than 20 Google services including Gmail, Latitude, Google Voice, Google Docs, Gtalk, YouTube and Picasa.   ...

Google Dashboard puts all of Google's services in one place
Seth H. Weintraub's blog — Google today released a new web page that allows users to better see how much of their data are being stored by the Internet search giant. Google Dashboard lists all of Google's services that a user is subscribed to, in one location. In a Blogpost on the subject ,  a Google (Alma Whitten, Software Engineer, Yariv Adan, Product Manager, and Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience) said: 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 ...

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