Paul Jacobson

Google announced its Dashboard yesterday as part of its effort to address users' privacy concerns. The Dashboard gives you an overview of what personal information Google has collected about you through your use of its various services. The Dashboard is not public and you can only access it by signing in to view it. Viewing your Dashboard for the first time can be both disturbing and revealing. The Dashboard shows you details about your email accounts, your YouTube viewing habits and a lot more. Mine even told me what my last recorded location on Latitude was. Dashboard isn't about privacy as secrecy but rather about privacy in the sense of being able to discover how much personal information has been collected and how much of that is publicly visible. The Dashboard also contains a variety of links to settings pages where you can modify your privacy settings for the various services you use as well as some guidance how to improve your privacy (as in secrecy). Google's privacy policy... - Paul Jacobson