Google Dashboard Bows to Users' Privacy Concerns

Nov 5th, 2009 - PC World

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Google Dashboard Bows to Users' Privacy Concerns

In a big concession to users' privacy rights, Google launched what it calls Google Dashboard - a tool which gives Google account holders a single view of all of the data associated with their Google accounts.

The Google Dashboard is being touted as a way for users to, at a glance, see information about their Web usage, email usage and more when they are logged into Google services such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Calendar. Google provides an overview of the Dashboard in a video in its main blog. Dashboard will let users delete information as well, a move that could help to address privacy concerns that have been raised surrounding Google's collection of so much data about its users' online habits.

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