Google Dashboard Lets Users Review Collected Data

November 6th, 2009

On Thursday, Google launched a new feature that aims to silence privacy advocates who have criticized the search industry’s data-collection and storage practices. If the initiative appeases the critics, other search engines could move to adopt similar strategies.

The initiative is called Google Dashboard. For Google users who have wondered what data is stored in conjunction with their Google accounts, Dashboard offers a new level of transparency. Google Dashboard lets users see what data the search engine is storing and offers some control over how it’s used. Users can even delete some data.

Google software engineer Alma Whitten, Google product manager Yariv Adan, and Google Vice President of Search Products and User Experience Marissa Mayer made the Dashboard announcement on the company’s blog.

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