谷歌发布新工具DASHBOARD
Google sought to alleviate the concerns of privacy campaigners yesterday by unveiling new tools that will allow users to see what information the internet company is keeping on them.
谷歌(Google)昨日发布了新工具，使用户能够公司保存了有关他们的哪些信息。谷歌试图以此减轻隐私权运动者的担忧。
Users who have signed up for Google's consumer services, such as Gmail, Blogger, Picasa, and YouTube will be able to see a “dashboard” listing the personal details stored about them. Users will be able to edit and delete the information.
Gmail、Blogger、Picasa、YouTube等谷歌消费者服务的注册用户，将能够看到一个“dashboard”，上面列出了这些服务中所储存的详细个人信息。用户还能够编辑和删除这些信息。
It is similar to the tools Google introduced this year to allow people to see the profile of interests it was building up about them in order to serve targeted advertising.
这与谷歌今年推出的另一个工具相似，那个工具让用户能够看到谷歌所收集的有关他们兴趣爱好的信息。这些信息是为定向广告服务的。
As Google offers people an increasing number of services from search to cloud computing, scrutiny of its privacy practices has increased.
随着谷歌向人们提供的服务越来越多——从搜索到云计算(cloud computing)——相关机构对其隐私权惯例的审查也日渐加强。
This year a leading privacy group called on the US Federal Trade Commission to shut down Google's web services until it could ensure better safeguards for personal data. There were mounting concerns that technical problems were making personal information on Google Docs, Google Desktop and Gmail visible to other users.
今年，一个主要隐私权团体呼吁美国联邦贸易委员会(Federal Trade Commission)关闭谷歌的网络服务，直至它能够确保对个人数据提供更好的保护。人们越来越担心，技术问题使得Google Docs、Google Desktop以及Gmail上的个人信息能为其他用户所见。
Privacy campaigners welcomed the new dashboard, launched at a conference of data protection commissioners in Madrid. “If the rest of the industry took this line, we would start to solve some of the problems with privacy,” said Simon Davies of Privacy International.
隐私权运动者对这个在马德里数据保护专员会议上新推出的dashboard工具表示欢迎。Privacy International的西蒙•戴维斯(Simon Davies)表示：“如果其它互联网公司也采取这种做法，将有助于我们开始解决关于隐私权的一些问题。”
The new dashboard will not answer some of the key data protection concerns hanging over Google. It does not show the information Google collects when people use its internet search engine, which accounts for most of the company's data.
新的dashboard没有解决围绕谷歌的一些最关键的数据保护担忧。它不会显示谷歌在人们使用其互联网搜索引擎时所收集到的信息，而这占了该公司所拥有数据的绝大部分。
译者/董琴
