Google releases Dashboard stored data service

Tom Krazit CNET News

Published: 05 Nov 2009 10:26 GMT

Google is launching Google Dashboard, a service that allows users to log into a console and see all the personal data the company maintains on their Google Account across all its products — from Gmail and YouTube to Blogger and Picasa. It lets users log into the settings page of their Google Account and review links to the personal data stored by Google across many of its products from a single web page.

Users can delete data, change privacy settings and read the privacy policies from various accounts on that page, which is scheduled to go live on Thursday. Google had pre-briefed news outlets about the announcement, but a YouTube video outlining the service was somehow published on Google's Privacy Channel on YouTube and spotted by the Google Operating System blog.

One of the overarching themes with regards to Google this year has been the increasing discomfort among both the public and US government on the degree to which the company has grown to dominate the internet. With nearly two-thirds of all internet searches passing through its servers and growing numbers of people using its Google Docs, Gmail and YouTube services, Google is a vital gateway to information for web users.

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