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Google privacy controls: Most people won’t care

Written By
MA
Matt Asay
Nov 6, 2009

“In other words, Google gets stronger with every Google Doc
created, every Google Voice call dialed, and every Gmail e-mail
sent. It becomes stronger because data is the heart of the Web’s
biggest businesses, as Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady implies.

“But in so doing Google also becomes more threatening to the
very consumers it is trying to serve.

“Google Dashboard is meant to change this by putting consumer
data back in the hands of consumers. It’s a move that follows on
Google’s earlier pledge to “open data” and its Data Liberation
Front.”

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