Google’s Eric Schmidt in Times Square video
p2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- Google’s sneak view Street View misadventures have been splashed Big Time.
Consumer Watchdog’s InsideGoogle.com has bought a 15-second, 540 square foot Jumbotron ad featuring an animated video starring Google boss Eric Schmidt, who’s apparently the sole master of all he surveys in Gargle Town.
Consumer Watchdog says it’s running the ad “to make the public aware of how out of touch Schmidt and Google are when it comes to our privacy rights”.
Titled “Don’t Be Evil?” it has Schmidt “driving an ice cream truck and secretly spying on children” . to “shine a spotlight on the need for Congress to enact a national ‘Do Not Track Me’ list”, it says.
Gargle has “collected massive amounts of personal data from Wi-Fi networks through its Street View cars, made private Gmail contacts publicly available on Buzz, and done a complete about-face on net neutrality, joining with Verizon in calling for toll lanes on the Internet”, it says, underscoring Schmidt’s infamous statement, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
And “Recently, he suggested children could change their names when they got older if they wanted to escape what was embarrassing and public in their online lives”, says the privacy group.
A ‘Do Not Track Me’ list would stop Google “or “any other Internet company” [read Fa$ebook?] from tracking peoples’ every move online, says John M. Simpson, director of the group’s Inside Google Project.
A “Do Not Track Me” list would prevent online companies from gathering personal information in the same way “Congress had the Federal Trade Commission create a Do Not Call list to prevent intrusive telemarketers from invading consumers’ privacy”, he says.
Some 80% of Americans support a “Do Not Track Me” list according to a July InsideGoogle.com national poll which “found strong support to protect Internet privacy including these steps >>>
- Require the creation of an “anonymous button” that allows individuals to stop anyone from tracking their online searches or purchases: 86% favor; 9% oppose.
- Ban the collection of any personal data on children under the age of 18: 84% favor; 10% oppose.
- Prevent online companies from tracking personal information or web searches without your explicit, written approval: 84% favor; 11% oppose.
- Ban online companies from tracking and storing information related to children’s online behavior so they can target them with advertising: 83% favor; 12% oppose.
- Require the creation of a “do not track me” list for online companies that would be administered by the Federal Trade Commission: 80% favor; 12% oppose.
Stay tuned.
(Cheers, RW)
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September 3rd, 2010 at 10:26 am
Schmidt “the ice-cream man”
sounds scary. Think i’ll use it to tell the kids a scary story at bed time this weekend.
September 6th, 2010 at 10:36 am
” sounds scary. Think i’ll use it to tell the kids a scary story at bed time this weekend. ”
Very.
For good or ill, using the ‘think of the CHILDREN’ scare tactic stirs up the masses nearly 100% of the time.
Just like when the RIAA uses it to attack P2P AND net neutrality.
If we use the same specious methodology as those we object to, are we really any different ?