Google Dashboard Allows Users to See/Edit The Data Google Stores About You
Google announced a new tool today that will allow users with Google accounts to see all the various data the company keeps about them and to edit or erase some (not all) of that data.
According to Google, you’ll soon find a link to Google Dashboard in the “personal settings” of the “my account” page.
The dashboard will contain:
“some of the information associated with the Google services you use: your name, your email address, the number of contacts, the number of conversations in your Gmail inbox, your Google profile, the most recent entries from the web history etc. It’s a long answer to the question: “What does Google know about me?”.”
Dashboard also links to privacy policy pages for various sites and simplifies managing your online privacy profile.
This seems like a step in the right direction to us, and we’d definitely like to see more of it. One major omission in looking at dashboard’s functionality so far, though, appears to be the lack of data on searches on google itself. Let’s hope that enough users will request this that it gets added into future iterations.
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