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Ducky
3rd March 2010, 06:29 AM
Added Schmidt, "Whether you're Michael Paulson who lives at 3425 Longview Terrace and makes $86,400 a year, or Jessica Goldblatt from Lynnwood, WA, who already has well-established trust issues, we at Google would just like to say how very, truly sorry we are."

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Acknowledging that Google hasn't always been open about how it mines the roughly 800 terabytes of personal data it has gathered since 1998, Schmidt apologized to users— particularly the 1,237,948 who take daily medication to combat anxiety—for causing any unnecessary distress, and he expressed regret—especially to Patricia Fort, a single mother taking care of Jordan, Sam, and Rebecca, ages 3, 7, and 9—for not doing more to ensure that private information remains private.

Source. (http://eff.org/r.g92)

It really does seem like Google cares:

"Americans have every right to be angry at us," Google spokesperson Janet Kemper told reporters. "Though perhaps Dale Gilbert should just take a few deep breaths and go sit in his car and relax, like they tell him to do at the anger management classes he attends over at St. Francis Church every Tuesday night."

"Breathe in, breathe out," Kemper added. "We wouldn't want you to have another incident, Dale. Not when you've been doing so well."

tyr_13
3rd March 2010, 06:44 AM
That's hilarious.

sadhatter
3rd March 2010, 10:26 AM
I don't know why, but if anyone has seen the angry video game nerd, they will understand what i am saying.

It reminds me of a letter to the editor to nintendo power back in the day in which someone complained about the lack of originality in video game titles. Specifically that they all ended in 64.

The editors response was to say " so you wouldn't be a fan of us changing the name of the magazine to nintendo power 64??"

It seems the google guys are having a laugh with the paranoid people.

quixotecoyote
3rd March 2010, 10:33 AM
I don't know why, but if anyone has seen the angry video game nerd, they will understand what i am saying.

It reminds me of a letter to the editor to nintendo power back in the day in which someone complained about the lack of originality in video game titles. Specifically that they all ended in 64.

The editors response was to say " so you wouldn't be a fan of us changing the name of the magazine to nintendo power 64??"

It seems the google guys are having a laugh with the paranoid people.

Onion

The Onion

From The Onion

Satire from The Onion

This article is satire from The Onion.

drkitten
3rd March 2010, 10:33 AM
It seems the google guys are having a laugh with the paranoid people.

Actually, it seems to me that the Onion guys are sending up the Google guys.

Ducky
3rd March 2010, 11:18 AM
It seems the google guys are having a laugh with the paranoid people.

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