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Google Shows You What It Knows about You
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  by Glenn Fleishman <glenn@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/10725>

  With the new Google Dashboard, Google has taken another step towards
  transparency about how it uses all the information it collects about
  you and which you give it to store. The single location shows a
  summary of data stored for most services Google operates associated
  with a particular account of yours (I have two for structural and
  historical reasons).

<https://www.google.com/dashboard/>

  Each service shows a summary of top-line information, such as the
  various email addresses associated with a Google Account or settings
  for your Google calendar, and then links to management features and
  the privacy and/or security policies for the service.

<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2009-11/google_dashboard_details.jpg>

  While this doesn't address all the issues about the mammoth amount
  of data collection and storage Google undertakes, it's a nice way to
  see at a glance what we've let the company do - and, with a few
  clicks, wipe some of that information off its books.

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