[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #152: Google Dashboard

[Bobbi Galvin]

*OPLIN 4Cast #152: Google Dashboard*
November 12, 2009


  /4casting technologies that could have an impact on public libraries./

Online privacy has been a concern since the first online account was 
created.  Recently, Google announced the launch of Google Dashboard.  
This is a new service that summarizes the data stored with any Google 
account. Once you log in to any of your Google accounts, there is a link 
to Google Dashboard in the "personal settings" of the "my account" page.

Your private data will be collected and stored if you go online.  Here 
is one way for your to control at least one aspect of it.

    * Google Dashboard
      <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPaJPxhPq_g&feature=player_embedded>
      [video] contains a summary of Dashboard in under three minutes.
    * Dashboard shows what Google knows about you
      <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140411/Dashboard_shows_what_Google_knows_about_you>:
      Critics say Google makes some privacy progress, but call for more
      transparency 
    * Google Dashboard Changes Our Thinking About Privacy
      <http://adage.com/digitalnext/post.php?article_id=140399>  Do we
      protect or do we manage our digital information?

    * Two resources for people who think their online rights or privacy
      have been violated:
      Electronic Privacy Information Cente <http://epic.org/>r  was
      established in 1994 draw attention to online emerging "civil
      liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and
      constitutional values."  EPIC also publishes an online newsletter
      on civil liberties in the information age - the EPIC Alert. They
      also publish reports and even books about privacy, open
      government, free speech, and other important topics related to
      civil liberties.
      The Electronic Frontier Foundation <http://www.eff.org/>  protects
      freedom in the online world.  The EFF defends "free speech,
      privacy, innovation, and consumer rights."

*Cool fact from this 4Cast:*
/Google said the tool monitors  more than 20 commonly used products, 
including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, 
Reader, Alerts and Google Latitude. /

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Bobbi Galvin
OPLIN Customer Relations & Support
P: 1-888-966-7546
www.oplin.org

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