Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square

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."

Comments

What Are You Hiding?

[Some.Net(Guy)]

Sure I understand that you have a right to privacy, but if you aren't doing anything wrong, why do you care? I don't care that Google scans the content of my email to provide me with relevant ads. I never look at them or click on them. I'm not doing anything I shouldn't be doing online, so if Google knows that I go to a certain website (say, slashdot) more than others and makes it pop up when I type the letter "s" in the address bar, that's awesome for me. I seriously think people are blowing this out of proportion.

Re:BUSTED!

[kryliss]

Must be part of the Catholic Church's model of "Do what I say not what I do" policy.

there's a lot of attacks on microsoft here

[circletimessquare]

this is akin to someone being accused of rape, but because someone else is a rapist, then its ok for the accued to rape

here's a lightning bolt for you numbskulls: how about privacy invasion is wrong if done by google, EVEN IF microsoft does it also and is a hypocrite in their attacks?

how does that concept strike you?

guess what: no matter how strong, numerous, or correct your exposes on the sleaziness of microsoft are, if google is doing something wrong, its still doing something wrong

chastise microsoft AND google. picking between them and attacking one or the other for the same crime is, using my most diplomatic terminology: fucking stupid of you