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Should Burger King Be Prosecuted For Their Google Home-Triggering Ads? (washingtonpost.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the firewalls-versus-Whoppers dept.

Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein thinks Burger King should be prosecuted for successfully running an alternate version of its advertisement to trigger Google Home devices again Wednesday: Someone -- or more likely a bunch of someones -- at Burger King and their advertising agency need to be arrested, tried, and spend some time in shackles and prison cells. They've likely been violating state and federal cybercrime laws with their obnoxious ad campaign... For example, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act broadly prohibits anyone from accessing a computer without authorization... Burger King has instantly become the 'poster child' for mass, criminal abuse of these devices... It was a direct and voluntary violation of law.

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  1. Support BK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm going to side with BK on this one. Nice troll of google. Again! With BK you can get a product that will feed you. With google you *are* the product. Not sure which product is the fattiest or greasiest of the two but there you have it.

  2. Burger King did WHAT??! by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've never heard of such a brutal and shocking injustice that I cared so little about!

    Give it to me straight... who does this affect - 4 or 5 people tops?

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  3. Why cant Google just reply with a MacDonalds plug? by gatkinso · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, as long as we are all being dicks, why not have the bigger dick?

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  4. Re:Someone triggered a /. dupe? by Megane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently Burger King made a slight change to the article and resubmitted it.

    I don't really care as long as I keep getting those sheets of coupons.

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  5. Hey Publicity by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 3, Funny
    All publicity is good publicity, right? According to the assholes at BK., it is. To Wit:

    Dara Schopp, BK regards the ad as a success, as it has increased the brand's 'social conversation' on Twitter by some 300%," though he's not a fan of "reaching through your TV speakers and directly messing with your digital devices. You may wish to consider alternate vendors for your burger needs."

    All publicity is good publicity. Thus the thugs at United Airlines have just completed the most sucessful and money making PR campaign ever.

    Next on Burger Kings agenda - Murdering a reandom customer. Strangle that fucker in th efront of the store. That oughta get their Twitter feed, the undeniable measure of success, to go up by a million percent or so.

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  6. Re:Someone triggered a /. dupe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lauren Weinstein, a whiny, weak-ass, entitled, irresponsible snowflake with no life.