Re: [projectvrm] Google's attempt to make a safer ad medium

[Identity Coach < >]

Title: Your account settings in one place at My Account

User customization?
or
Denial dial?
"Make it less creepy" filter?

For some time, Google has been working at giving us "usefulness" tools to help us discover ways to understand what they're doing (to a limited extent--with Take Out) and why we might wish to trust them with our deep personal info (like the speech rec & Google Now). The fact that Google also randomly drops some of their useful products without so much as a "hey user" doesn't help with that whole trust thing much (securing your account from whom, exactly?). Ultimately Google is a big, lumbering beast that feeds their shareholders with best-guess data shredding. Positioning themselves as personal teddy bears? "yeah, not so much" say many of us.


On 6/10/15 4:28 AM, Katherine Warman Kern wrote:

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Katherine Warman Kern

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Controls to protect and secure your Google Account

Hello,

We want you to know that you can manage your privacy and security settings in one place, My Account.

VISIT MY ACCOUNT

My Account helps you manage your Google Account settings. For example, you can use Account History to manage or edit your activity on Google, such as your search queries and the places you have been. With Ads Settings, you can tell Google what kinds of ads you would like to see and not see — and you can control ads based on your interests.

Additional tools and features let you:

			Check your key privacy settings by taking the Privacy Checkup
			Secure your account with a recovery phone number
			Control other account preferences, such as language and accessibility options

You can adjust these settings and more whenever you want at My Account.

Sincerely,

The Google Accounts team

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