[governance] More on Google privacy violation issue: Dashboard Reveals What Google Knows About You

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Of great concern to users everywhere the following is quite
interesting.  What's even more interesting is that much of the
personal data that Goolge has collected is of very questionable
accuracy.
See: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/06/0453232

"Ever wonder exactly what Google knows about you? Google
took a step today to answer that question http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140411/Dashboard_shows_what_Google_knows_about_you
with the unveiling of Google Dashboard, which is designed to let users 
see and control the copious amounts of data that http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9129916/FTC_urged_to_investigate_Google_s_hosted_services
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,' http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/transparency-choice-and-control-now.htmlGoogle 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."

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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