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  From: <jt2184@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Sun,  3 Apr 2005 12:19:21 -0400

RE: Google and your Privacy

I am sorry for my “naïf” comment. In my country, the Fools day is
Dec 28, and those days the line between true and false is so
narrow... Anyway, thanks for clarifying.
javier

Quoting Heather Schneider <hms2103@columbia.edu>:

>
> As Steve said, it is a joke. Yesterday was April Fools Day, so a
> lot of
> web sites had fake news.
>
> April Fools' Day prompts Google, Apple, Bush pranks
> http://news.com.com/2061-10786-5650217.html?tag=xtra.ml
>
> For a list of fake news, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April 1%2C 2005
>
> My personal favorite was about the Encyclopedia Britannica
> takeover of
> Wikipedia.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
>
>
> 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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