Then there's all the info Google isn't sharing on the Dashboard. As notes:

Noticeably absent from Dashboard is any view of the cookie data Google uses to target ads. Essentially, all Dashboard does is consolidate the admin pages of the services associated with a user's account in a single place. Convenient, yes. But does it tell us anything we didn't already know? Or, more importantly, how Google is using that information? No.

The day Google tells me how it's using my information to make money -- and gives me the opportunity to say thanks but no thanks -- is the day I believe Google is really interested in "transparency, choice, and control."

Meanwhile, as PC World's Tony Bradley notes, gathering all this info in one tidy spot makes it easier for to dip his slimy fingers into the corners of your life like a biscotti into a venti latte.

And then there's the possibility of , as it did earlier this year with Google Docs. Following that breach, the Electronic Privacy Information Center that collect data (which is to say, pretty much all of them).