Google unveils privacy tools

The FT reports that Google has unveiling tools that will allow users to see what information the internet company is keeping on them, to aleviate the concerns of privacy campaigners.

Users who have signed up for any of Google’s consumer services, such as Gmail, Blogger, Picasa, and YouTube, will be able to see a “dashboard” listing the personal details that are stored about them. Users will be able to edit and delete the information.

The dashboard is similar to the tools Google introduced earlier this year to allow people to see the data that it was collecting about them in order to serve them targeted advertising.
Privacy campaigners welcomed the privacy tools as a step forward. “If the rest of the industry took this line, we would start to solve some of the problems with privacy,” said Simon Davies of Privacy International, the pressure group.

Read the article here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5116b30-c9f5-11de-a5b5-00144feabdc0.html