Google Dashboard — How Much Do They Know About You?
Google Dashboard gives you one handy, dandy place to keep track of all your Google stuff. Let’s face it, more than any other device, the iPhone is the mobile internet. Google — well it is the internet. If you’re a big Google user, they know what you search for, the contents of your Gmail, the appointments in your Google Calendar, the data in your Google Docs, your Google Latitude coordinates, and who knows what else…
Well, now you do. Let us know how that works for you.
(NB- No iPhone/Mobile WebKit optimized version yet but it works just fine in Safari).
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Oh Big Brother.. :/
I just wish that I could have a google voice and wave app for this d&$m iPhone.
A lot less there than I imagined.
@jersagfast
Not big brother if you give them the info.
Don’t want to seem trivial here, but remember the Tweek episode of South Park, the one with the business scheme underpants–profit? In other words, no clear path between having a lot of underpants and turning profit.
I’ve read similar article to the above at Precentral.com. People there are also a bit concerned about how much private information is collected by Google. But neither here nor there I was provided with a clear connection between the ‘Google knows too much’ and the ‘Orwellian anti-utopia that is sure to materialize if we don’t keep Google in check’ (props to the guy with the first comment).
How about this: if you know something, please tell us. Straight up. Enlighten us about what’s going on. Don’t just try to ring a distant bell in our heads. Otherwise you just seem like somebody who’s desperately defend a platform.
Best regards
Most likely, not much more than I know about them… which is nothing. Never heard of it.
Who cares what they know? Are YOU (figurative) so important that Google would be interested in YOUR info?
@Ignolex:
When you start a post with something like that you have to expect that 99% of the potential readers tuned out immediately.
Seriously, citing a cartoon is never instructive of real life.
I’ll translate Ignolex: The basic theory of people who say all this is evil is: 1. You do stuff. 2. Google collects stats on you. 3. ??? 4. Orwellian dystopia where Google is the supreme dictator of the universe. (In the South Park episode Ignolex was referring to, instead of this, there was the word “profit.” That’s where the meme came from.) The point is, how exactly is all this going to matter in the long run? What exactly goes in step three?
@icebike You’re probably right. But the point is made.
@Oboewan Thanks for the interpretation; I’m glad we’re on the same page.
Look at the comment activity on this thread, by the way. Looks like not that many people fall for this Google scare after all.
The truth is that google stores all the info you can imagine. Reasons? = $$$$$. They store what pages you visit, who do you know, what are your interests. I mean ive seen so many movies that it becomes scary sometimes to think about it. That way they can sell add so scaters receives scate adds while i receive mobile phones adds or technology adds. All this is an opinion since havent read about any proof buts pretty obvious. Any way there so many people in the world that ur info is never get in the middle of a millionary complot for sure haha.
Not to much i hope
they track every site you visit from their search page. They keep more information on people, than the FBI does. They are the #1 security risk on the internet. They never ask you if it is ok to spy on you. I use OpenDNS and keep google blocked, to keep myself and family safe and private.