The Web's Worst Privacy Policy 107
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "With much of the web upset over about Google's latest privacy policy changes, it's helpful to remember it could be much worse: A search engine called Skipity offers the world's worst privacy policy (undoubtedly tongue-in-cheek), filled with lines like this: 'You may think of using any of our programs or services as the privacy equivalent of living in a webcam fitted glass house under the unblinking eye of Big Brother: you have no privacy with us. If we can use any of your details to legally make a profit, we probably will.' The policy gives the company the right to sell any of your data that it wants to any and all corporate customers, send you limitless spam, track your movements via GPS if possible, watch you through your webcam, and implant a chip in your body that is subject to reinstallation whenever the company chooses."
Well, at least one company is honest then (Score:5, Funny)
Every time I use Google, I get this unnerving feeling that Larry Page is petting a cat somewhere and telling a henchman "Soon we will have enough to blackmail EVERYONE...bwah, ha, ha, ha!"
Re:Well, at least one company is honest then (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Unconscionability (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Well, at least one company is honest then (Score:5, Funny)
They already have enough to blackmail everyone.
They're not already blackmailing everyone?
Crap, I wonder who that I payed that rans^H^H^H^Hdonation to?
in another news... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Slashdot isn't upset over Google's changes (Score:3, Funny)
actually, ALL of you are part of a campaign, deliberate or not, to poison slashdot, which alone is more worth, has created more insight, than google, microsoft, apple, facebook and twitter combined.
this used to be a vestige of cynical people who aren't fucking stupid, now it's endless bickering about some prostitute corporations, as if those didn't have their own PR outlets. cut it out, all of you. anyone who reads any of it, or spends a single mod point on something that is PURE NOISE, is basically a traitor and part of the problem.
I prefer this disclaimer... ;) (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Well, at least one company is honest then (Score:5, Funny)
I can see it now.
Hello, Senator. I'm glad you could meet with me. I wanted to talk to you about an... anomaly we noticed with your gmail account. It seems that all of those racy emails you've been sending to your intern—you know, the 15-year-old son of your biggest donor—somehow made their way into a mail queue that is scheduled for delivery to your wife and her divorce attorney some time tomorrow.
Now I know what you're thinking. How could this happen? We're not really sure. The point is that it has happened. We can make sure those messages never get delivered by deleting the queue, which we'll do, but we need something from you, too. Good. I'm glad we could come to an understanding.
Re:Slashdot isn't upset over Google's changes (Score:4, Funny)
No, Grandpa Simpson, it never was. Perhaps you're thinking of Usenet before the Great Renaming?
Re:bonch is a pro-Apple, Anti-Google shill (Score:0, Funny)
He's paid by Yahoo! to post that.