Click to play videoNew Delhi: How much does Google know about you? You would be surprised at what you will find if you check out their log of your life on Google Dashboard.
Google Dashboard is telling you exactly how much they know about you. From blog posts, emails and chats to all your web searches and the sites you visited over the past four years, the holidays you booked online, your medical problems and youtube searches - it's a record of your entire online and offline life.
Thankfully, you can now delete all this and stop Google from tracking your every move.
Manager, Communications and Public Affairs at Google, Anthony House says, "What we are trying to do with Dashboard is take discussions of privacy online, away from the theoretical or abstract and make sure that there is one place that they can go to find out their information and then change their settings if they want to."
Google claims it collects this data to show you more relevant advertisements and more useful search results. And by giving you control over this, it's trying to earn your trust. But not all critics are convinced.
Professor Peter Sommer of the London School of Economics says, "This is pretty insecure. All you are going to need is the Google email ID, which is public and get the password and all that information, highly specific, very easy to search, is easily available."
Something that some of us could find a bit too creepy.
(With inputs from Benjamin Cohen in London)
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