From: <spm2101@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:54:01 -0500

Re: Google and your Privacy

It is  a joke.

Speaking of Google, here's an scary (non-joke) Google page that can track 
all cabs in cities real time.  Right now, not many cab companies are signed 
up, so you only see a few cabs in each city.

<http://labs.google.com/ridefinder#nyc>

Steve


--On Friday, April 01, 2005 6:48 PM -0500 jt2184@columbia.edu wrote:

>
>
> I don't undestand a word. Is that a joke?
>
> Quoting Heather Schneider <hms2103@columbia.edu>:
>
>> By now I'm sure you've all heard of Google's April 1st entry into
>> the
>> soft drink market :-)
>> http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
>>
>> But what I find most interesting is their new privacy policy:
>>
>> Google Gulp and Your Privacy
>> > From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness
>> for our
>> users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your
>> usage of
>> this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of
>> your
>> Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlexT, a heavily guarded, massively
>> parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric
>> Schmidt, who
>> carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card
>> locked in a
>> stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No
>> personally
>> identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption
>> of
>> Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product
>> will
>> ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a
>> late-night
>> poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any
>> untrustworthy
>> third party, ever, we swear. See our Privacy Policy.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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