[LINK] Google Dashboard

[Jan Whitaker]

At 05:19 AM 6/11/2009, Roger Clarke wrote:
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>Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
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More on this from someone who's been watching:
http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/11/05/google-dashboard-convenient-yes-transparency-choice-and-control-not-so-much/

UPDATE: Others agree with my assessment of 
Dashboard. 
<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googles_privacy_dashboard_a_good_start_but_still_l.php>ReadWriteWeb 
notes that “Google’s Privacy Dashboard Doesn’t 
Tell Us Anything We Didn’t Know Before”, while 
<http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/google-privacy-dashboard/>Mashable 
recognizes that “Dashboard is nothing more than a 
selected list of privacy-related settings”. And 
<http://fredstutzman.com/>Fred Stutzman correctly 
observes in the comments below that “By creating 
this interface, Google gets to functionally 
define the “sense” of information 
collection/retention. That is, their sense of the 
boundaries of collection will be informed by the 
interface. But
this interface minimizes the true 
extent of data retention.” Indeed.



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