Google facelifts Dashboard, reveals more dodginess During my most recent battle with Google in April 2013, I checked the Dashboard a lot, and it reported that I had no Google Docs. (That makes sense, since they are blocked here.) Now I find I have one Google Doc. Which I never created.
It also says I have three contacts. That’s also a surprise since I spent time ensuring I have none. Of course, when I click through, it says just that: I have none.
I know: Google can’t count. It’s not the first time the Dashboard has said I have something when I don’t, and there’s plenty of that documented in the last few years as I’ve gone after the house of G for being dod-G. Holding on to blog data without permission, hacking Iphones, spying on anyone who had opted out of Ads Preferences Manager, committing libel on a regular basis—and that’s just in the last three years.
I would never have happened across any of this if I wasn’t asked to upload YouTube videos tonight for my mayoral campaign. Turns out Vote.co.nz doesn’t use Vimeo. And since yours truly had the password to the old YouTube account from the last campaign, it was down to me to upload. And whenever you have to give something to Google, massive alarm bells go off.