Great. Google just came up with another way to kill time, rolling out its Dashboard and revealing all the intimate details it collects on users and presenting them in an imminently clickable way.

People just can’t get enough of the cloud these days, something that Google is certainly glad to hear, because of all the apps it is delivering to users. But with information zipping off to something that engenders debate among nearly any circle -- namely, what is the cloud? -- privacy advocates have long wondered what information is being collected.

Dashboard gives insight into Calendar events along with Contacts and Gmail messages and the rest of the offerings. Basically, if you use a number of Google services through the cloud, this dashboard provides a pretty good composite of who you are when you’re online.

Dashboard provides those details, all the way down the nitty gritty of just how many Google Talk conversations you have stored on your account.

I am well over 4,000 conversations, how about you?

But what’s the end game here? Is Google bowing to privacy critics and paranoids who want to know why those targeted Gmail ads are so creepily on the money? Doubtful. 

I think it is more likely that the search engine giant is just flaunting the fact that it has so much information on people these days that it might know more about someone than their own parents.

“Hey, any other vendor in the world, wouldn’t you like to be this on top of the cloud and have this much personal information about people? Yeah, we know you would.”

Sometimes Google can be so arrogant.

But I’m pretty sure it already knows that I sometimes think that. After all, it knows my news reading habits on Google Reader and is privy to every email I’ve sent in that past five years.