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November 12, 2015 08:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hi-aId9tFkI/googles-new-about-me-tool-is-the-anti-google
Google's New About Me Tool Is the Anti-Google
An anonymous reader writes: Google has launched a new tool called About me that lets you see, edit, and remove the personal information that the company's services show to other users. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that the feature started rolling out to users this week. Google's various products and services (Gmail, Hangouts, Google Maps, Inbox, Google Play, YouTube, Google+, and so on) sometimes ask you to share certain personal information. These details are then shown to other users who interact with you or search for you. Until now, all of this was stored in Google+, assuming you created an account. But Google+ is no longer a requirement for Google's services, and so the company needs a new solution, and ideally one that isn't public by default.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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