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Google & NSA To Combat Cyber Attacks

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Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks

The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.

Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack.

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Google Gets Transparent

Google, with its Dashboard feature, will now offer users the opportunity to see what information about themselves is collected by the myriad of Google products.

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Google Creates Privacy Dashboard

Google, which has had a bullseye on its back when it comes to Internet privacy, on Thursday launched a Web site that shows people what data Gmail, Google Calendar and more than a dozen other Google products store about them.

The company announced the service, called Google Dashboard, at a conference in Europe, where regulators have repeatedly pressured Google to cut back on how long it keeps logs of users’ search queries and other personal data.

The new service pulls together many controls Google has offered people for a while, such as the ability to see and delete their search history. It also allows users to quickly glance across the most recent Google documents they have opened, to see across other people they maybe sharing their Google calendar with and other data to remind them what Google keeps.

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