Feel Lucky? Try To Google Google's Privacy Policy. (Trees And Things)

WMK: What does Google get?

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:38:02 EST

What does Google get out of refusing to comply with this law?

I can imagine some kind of meeting room at Google with an executive exclaiming that bending to this effort to coerce/regulate their content by legal decree:
" ...it's like, this violates

thefadd: Re: That's a lot of information.

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 21:04:31 EST

I don't believe google is getting a free pass on the spirit of the law. So long as someone interested in viewing the privacy policy has reasonable access to it, then I believe we're all ok. A major part of the internet is design. You can't reasonably list

MayorBob: That's a lot of information.

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:56:07 EST

Too bad it's basically bad information.

This is the law regarding what the Surgeon General's warning has to say, in addition to where it ne

thefadd: Re: Other Legal Wastes Of Time:

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:10:41 EST

But the surgeon general's warning is on the back of the carton, the ingredients are in the smallest print possible and the lotto odds just say, "odds depend on number of participants." I don't think google has actively make their privacy policy difficult t

MayorBob: Other Legal Wastes Of Time:

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:46:05 EST

1. Printing the Surgeon General warning on the packages of cigarettes.

2. Printing the actual odds of someone winning the lottery.

3. Printing the nutritional content of processed foods.

4. Printing the active ingredients on most of th

Steve Urkel: Fly 'cause it's sittin' on Daytons

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:31:09 EST

I love how California has taken it upon itself to regulate the internet. Thanks a lot California. I think local governments do this because the things they should be doing are boring. The mayor and city council where I live, for example, are fixated with s

thefadd: So Lucky Maybe I Should Hit Up The Casinos

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:10:54 EST

I'll go Shane's subQ comment and the "Feel Lucky?" headline one better: Go to google, type in "privacy policy" and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" and you are taken directly to a page dominated by the following in blue block letters: "Google Privacy Policy." That