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Google tries to allay privacy fears

Source: The Australian
Munich : Germany | 18 days ago  
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Just launched globally, the Google Dashboard provides an easy interface with a range of existing privacy controls intended to help users manage their interactions with the search giant's burgeoning range of email, social networking and voice products. "This is absolutely about increasing transparency...
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  • News Source: The News Tribune | 17 days ago
    Google has unveiled its Google Dashboard service, a page where users can get a sense of the data the company stores about them in any of 23 different Google-run services. As questions about how the company uses consumer data continue to mount, Google...
  • News Source: Los Angeles Times | 17 days ago
    Its Dashboard service is Google's attempt to respond to questions about how it uses consumer data and whether users have enough access to and control of information they have on programs like Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs, the company's word-...
  • News Source: Venture Beat | 17 days ago
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  • News Source: The Australian | 17 days ago
    Just launched globally, the Google Dashboard provides an easy interface with a range of existing privacy controls intended to help users manage their interactions with the search giant's burgeoning range of email, social networking and voice products.
  • News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | 17 days ago
    Dashboard summarizes data kept about use of more than 20 of the California-based firm's services, according to a blog post by Google engineer Alma Whitten, product manager Yariv Adan, and vice president Marissa Mayer. "The Dashboard summarizes data...
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    Google centralises privacy control. As Google's dominance continues, it gives users a dashboard for to manage their settings one place. With the new Google Dashboard, the personal data and product settings of different Google products ...
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    Google Dashboard will tell an internet user with a Google Account all the services that that person uses from Google, and also allows for users to have better control over managing account data. It is easy to access the service, ...
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