Google launches privacy Dashboard service. What does Google know about me?

Google has launched a Dashboard service that's designed to show how much the search engine giant knows about its users online activities.

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 engine giant's tentacles reach so far that it's tough to know how much information it holds on each of us.

Google Dashboard - which is designed to address privacy concerns over the search engine giant's propensity to catalogue data - is accessed by logging into a Google account. Surfers get a list of the number of items held on particular services (Calenders, Blogger, Shopper, Chat, Gmail etc. etc.) linking to the data repositories of these services for more detailed information.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/05/google_privacy_dashboard/

Published Thu, Nov 5 2009 15:06 by donna

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Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:28 PM by Basil (aka gr277)

# re: Google launches privacy Dashboard service. What does Google know about me?

Thank you Donna....Very interesting.

I just visited my Google Dashboard, and I see that it lists my Postal Code. This means that my house can be pinpointed within an accuracy of 3 or 4 houses on the same street.

This is the only part of the record that would concern me.

They also list some of the web sites I have visited but not all.  

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