Google's New 'Account Activity' Is a Sham

Google Account Activity is Google's fairly transparent attempt to differentiate itself from Facebook by being open about what it knows about you. But in their attempt to not overwhelm you with the truly scary amount of data they have compiled about you, they boiled it all down into a super accessible milquetoast of a dashboard that tells you absolutely nothing.

You know what Google isn't telling you?

• Google knows every search query you've ever entered while logged in
• Google has all kinds of demographic information about you
• Google has probably derived, from the above data, everything from your sexual orientation to your hometown, though I can't prove it.
• Google has a rough idea of your social graph, based on your gmail contacts and the frequency with which you email them.
• Thousands and thousands of lines of other information about you.