Anti-Google Group’s Creeptastic Video Campaign - millertencephad

Consumer Guard dog, an anti-Google aggroup, invaded Times Square with a 540-square-foot video cartoon of Google Chief executive officer Eric Schmidt frightening children — and me — with threats of infiltrating their online lives. Watch it with the lights on.

The video is part of Consumer Guard dog's "Do Not Track Me" campaign (the efforts of InsideGoogle.com) and plays on the Multiplication Square jumbotron 36 times per day. Ironically, the video is on YouTube, which is owned by Google.

"Google has collected massive amounts of personal data from Wi-Fi networks through its Street Watch cars, made private Gmail contacts publicly on tap on Buzz, and done a complete roughly-face up on final neutrality, joining with Verizon in calling for toll lanes connected the Internet," John M. Simpson says on Consumer Watchdog's web log.

The video includes one of Schmidt's ill-famed quotes nearly online secrecy: "If you have something that you assume't want anyone to know, possibly you shouldn't be doing it to begin with." Schmidt too recently suggested that children change their names to escape Google's data-collecting wrath — but that sounded banteringly (as well atomic number 3 foot-in-mouth) to me.

Consumer Watchdog have started a campaign asking Congress to bring a "Do Not Track Me" list that keeps Google's eyes from prying into our personal online information via cookie-tracking.

Consumer Guard dog also touts a Recent Grove Insight survey (PDF), which finds strong support to protect Internet privacy, including these steps:

• Take an "faceless release" that allows individuals to stop anyone from tracking their online searches or purchases: 86 percent favour; 9 percent oppose.
• Ban collection of any personal information on children nether the maturat of 18: 84 percent favor; 10 percent oppose.
• Prevent online companies from trailing personal information or web searches without your explicit, inscribed approval: 84 percent favour; 11 percent oppose.
• Ban online companies from tracking and storing information related to children's online behavior so they can prey them with advertising: 83 percent favor; 12 percent oppose.
• Require a "do non track me" list for online companies (similar to the "suffice non call" list) that would be administered by the Federal Patronage Commission: 80 percent favor; 12 percent defen.

The information was plagiarised from "1000 likely 2022 general election voters" in California and was conducted over the Internet.

Consumer Watchdog makes valid points, simply to Pine Tree State, this video is a bit over the top. What do you think?

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/502932/anti_google_groups_creeptastic_video_campaign.html

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