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Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square

Posted by Soulskill on from the what-kind-of-ice-cream dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Consumer Watchdog is running a 540-square-foot video billboard advertisement in Times Square, New York that shows Google CEO Eric Schmidt as an ingratiating ice cream truck driver who knows everything about everyone and happily offers free ice cream in exchange for full body scans. The group says its goal is to push Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to create a Do Not Track Me list, similar to the Do Not Call list developed to prevent telemarketers from aggressively calling consumers. 'Do you want Google or any other online company looking over your shoulder and tracking your every move online just so it can increase its profits?' writes the group's president, Jamie Curtis, at the group's web site. 'Consumers have a right to privacy. They should control how their information is gathered and what it is used for.' The FTC's consumer affairs group had no comment on whether the agency is considering creating a Do Not Track Me list."

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  1. Nevermind Google. by jedidiah · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nevermind Google. Howabout a "do not track me" list for local governments and law enforcement that want to place tracking devices on me and my car?

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  2. Re:Free ice cream by silverglade00 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we know what you two would do for a Klondike bar.

  3. Re:Free ice cream by camperslo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps the Grateful Dead saw this coming?

  4. Re:So in order to Not Track Me properly by GrumblyStuff · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, yes, I had it backwards. What's so hard about not misunderstanding what I didn't not say?

    Jumpin' Jesus Christ on a cross....

  5. Re:So in order to Not Track Me properly by Smauler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Opt-in :
    ( ) Click here to have your nuts bitten off

    Opt-out :
    ( ) Click here to not have your nuts bitten off

    Default Opt-in :
    (*) Click here to have your nuts bitten off
    ( ) Click here to not have your nuts bitten off

    Default Opt-out :
    ( ) Click here to have your nuts bitten off
    (*) Click here to not have your nuts bitten off

    Most websites go for the last choice though :
    (*) Click here to have your nuts bitten off
    (*) Click here to have your nuts bitten off
    (*) Click here to have your nuts bitten off
    (please select 3)

  6. Re:Gmail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because they're going to sell that data to the Illuminati, who will use it to compile lists of those who'll be detained by FEMA on the day when the one world government shall unveil itself. Duh.

  7. Re:Free ice cream by vandit2k6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why isn't this marked as 5 Funny :))

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