From: <jt2184@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Fri,  1 Apr 2005 18:48:43 -0500

Re: Google and your Privacy

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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