http://techliberation.com/2009/11/05/googles-privacy-dashboard-another-major-step-forward-in-user-empowerment-transparency/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://techliberation.com/2009/11/05/googles-privacy-dashboard-another-major-step-forward-in-user-empowerment-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-65021 MichaelZimmer Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:50:43 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=23198#comment-65021 <p>Sorry, but I fail to see what is innovative here. All they've done is provide links to all their services and the respective settings on one page. Sure, that's helpful, but not anything groundbreaking form a privacy or user control perspective. Users aren't given any new access or control over the data Google might be collecting. They just now have quicker access to see what is actually being collected.<br><a href="http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/11/05/google-dashboard-convenient-yes-transparency-choice-and-control-not-so-much/" rel="nofollow">http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/11/05/google-dash...</a></p> Sorry, but I fail to see what is innovative here. All they've done is provide links to all their services and the respective settings on one page. Sure, that's helpful, but not anything groundbreaking form a privacy or user control perspective. Users aren't given any new access or control over the data Google might be collecting. They just now have quicker access to see what is actually being collected.
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]]> http://techliberation.com/2009/11/05/googles-privacy-dashboard-another-major-step-forward-in-user-empowerment-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-63379 MichaelZimmer Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:50:43 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=23198#comment-63379 <p>Sorry, but I fail to see what is innovative here. All they've done is provide links to all their services and the respective settings on one page. Sure, that's helpful, but not anything groundbreaking form a privacy or user control perspective. Users aren't given any new access or control over the data Google might be collecting. They just now have quicker access to see what is actually being collected.<br><a href="http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/11/05/google-dashboard-convenient-yes-transparency-choice-and-control-not-so-much/" rel="nofollow">http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/11/05/google-dash...</a></p> Sorry, but I fail to see what is innovative here. All they've done is provide links to all their services and the respective settings on one page. Sure, that's helpful, but not anything groundbreaking form a privacy or user control perspective. Users aren't given any new access or control over the data Google might be collecting. They just now have quicker access to see what is actually being collected.
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