TechCrunch sees through Google’s new privacy dashboard:
It’s interesting the company feels the need to spin so hard on privacy. The language used on this dashboard is couched to suggest Google’s data gathering activities are performed principally for the user’s benefit. Which is a pitch-perfectly disingenuous response to growing consumer concerns about data privacy.
Most users, blinded by the illusion of free, won’t question Google’s motivations and its way of redefining words:
Google has seized on consumer privacy concerns and done the very best it can to defuse them with marketing misdirection, or bland and intellectually dishonest statements such as: “We keep your personal information private and safe—and put you in control.”
It’s not private if Google can see it (and use it), and you have no control if you can’t turn that off, or even know exactly what your data will be used for and how.