Google Dashboard: A record of your life

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 09 November 2009, 14:49 IST   |    7 Comments
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Google Dashboard: A record of your life
New Delhi: Google Dashboard can tell you exactly how much search giant Google knows about your life. From blog posts, emails and chats to all your web searches and the sites you visited over the past four years. The holidays you booked online, your medical problems and Youtube searches - it's a record of your entire online and offline life. However, Google now gives options to delete this information and also to stop tracking a person's every move, reports CNN-IBN. Anthony House, Manager, Communications and Public Affairs at Google says, "What we are trying to do with Dashboard is take discussions of privacy online, away from the theoretical or abstract and make sure that there is one place that they can go to find out their information and then change their settings if they want to." Google claims it collects this data to show users more relevant advertisements and more useful search results. And by giving the users control over this, it's trying to earn their trust. But not all critics are convinced. Professor Peter Sommer of the London School of Economics says, "This is pretty insecure. All you are going to need is the Google email ID, which is public and get the password and all that information, highly specific, very easy to search, is easily available."

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