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Google CEO Shown On Times Square As Internet Pervert


By Daya Baran at September 07, 2010 2 Comments    Share

Evil Eric Schmidt

Google CEO has was portrayed on the Times Square jumbotron as the “Perverter of Privacy” on the internet – an “Internet Pervert”. The 540-square-foot Jumbotron, showed Eric Schmidt as a creepy character in a Google-branded ice cream truck that drives down a street while collecting personal information from children.

Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, took to Times Square to protest Google’s privacy invasions. Google’s capacity to invade our privacy is scary. Google knows everything about you. The pizza your ordered last night, your date of birth, the photo you just viewed online, everything.

It has Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page worried too, and to protect their privacy they live under fake names, their driver’s licenses are under untraceable names, their aircrafts’ registrations are untraceable, on and on it goes but yet they know everything about you, your business, your kids, etc.,   and they are making money on it.

In the past year Google has made private GMail contacts public with Google Buzz, collected personal information from Wi-Fi networks in Street View vehicles, and most recently teamed with with Verizon to hammer out questionable net neutrality policies.

Most people are so busy living their lives they might not be aware of the invasion of their privacy. Check out Consumer Watchdog’s full investigation into Google here, and watch the Times Square ad below.

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