Google Dashboard: Transparent, maybe. Private? No.

06.11.2009
What does Google know about you and when did they know it? Those are the questions Google claims it's trying to answer with .

Simply put, the gathers up almost every Google service you've signed up for and displays the most basic settings for each on a single page. Here's how describes it:

In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings.

[ Even the Great Googley Moogley stumbles from time to time, as Cringley notes in "" | Stay up to date on Robert X. Cringely's musings and observations with InfoWorld's . ]

Sounds peachy, doesn't it? Finally Google is giving us what we want, control over own data. Saints be praised.

Well, not exactly.