Google Dashboard privacy control platform launches today

Posted by Adam Bunker on Thu 5 Nov 2009

Manage and edit your details for multiple Google apps together

Google has today launched its privacy-enforcing Dashboard – a platform to keep track of and change your security details for multiple Google programs. If you’re an avid user of Gmail, Blogger, Picasa at al, you’ll now be able to organise the details you do or don’t want people to know across them all using Dashboard.

Dashbaord was developed, according to Google, to allow users "greater transparency and control,” adding that they’ll be able to "see in one place a summary of the data in all the Google products you use. You can also manage this data and change settings easily and quickly."

- Google Wave App store official

"The Dashboard brings together this data in one easy to manage format," the statement continues, "giving you an unprecedented level of visibility and control over that data."

Such data includes emails, attachments and conversations, as well as recent searches and your own personal details. As a sub-motive, Google has said that Dashboard will allow people to rediscover accounts on its less popular services that they might have forgotten they had.

Still, is it not logical to assume that having all your data in one place might be an even bigger security risk? It’s a bit like writing your pin number on your wallet…

Link: Google