A video cartoon featuring Google’s chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square last week as a privacy group continued to hound the Internet giant.
Consumer Watchdog took its gripes with Google to the center of Manhattan, where it paid to have a “Don’t be evil?” animated clip shown on a “Jumbotron” screen above the masses coursing through Times Square.
A cartoon version of Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was shown cruising a residential neighborhood in an ice cream truck, spying on children and disclosing their parents’ Internet browsing habits.
“We’re satirizing Schmidt in the most highly-trafficked public square in the nation to make the public aware of how out of touch Schmidt and Google are when it comes to our privacy rights,” said Watchdog president Jamie Court.
The snippet displayed as an advertisement in Times Square was from a video clip posted online at insidegoogle.com, a Web site run by Watchdog.
“We like ice cream as much as anyone, but we like privacy even more,” Google said in response to an AFP inquiry regarding the video.
“That’s why we provide tools for users to control their privacy online, like Google Dashboard, Ads Preference Manager, Chrome incognito mode and ‘off the record’ Gmail chat.”
The California-based Internet titan said that information about its privacy tools can be found online at google.com/privacy.(AFP)
隱私權保護團體緊咬網路巨擘Google,上週時代廣場的一個大螢幕播放卡通短片,當中Google高層用免費冰淇淋窺探小朋友的隱私。
消費者權益保護組織以付費方式在曼哈頓中心的超大螢幕播放卡通短片,將對Google的不滿訴諸群眾。
卡通版的Google執行長艾立克•史密特,在卡通中開著冰淇淋卡車,梭巡住宅區,偷窺小朋友,並揭露他們父母的上網習慣。
消費者權益保護組織會長傑米•寇特說,「我們在國家人潮流量最大的公眾廣場諷刺史密特,使人們了解史密特與Google在處理我們隱私權的時候,是有多麼不合時勢。」
這段在時代廣場播放的廣告短片,是取自於放在消費者權益保護組織網站insidegoogle.com的線上影片。
Google回應法新社關於影片的問題表示,「我們跟其他人一樣喜歡冰淇淋,但我們更喜歡隱私權。」
「這就是為何我們提供使用者線上隱私控制措施,像Google儀表版,廣告偏好管理員,Chrome瀏覽器匿名瀏覽模式,以及Gmail『不公開』聊天模式。」
這家總部在加州的網路巨人表示,這些關於隱私的工具可以在線上的google.com/privacy 網址找到。
(法新社�翻譯:吳岱璟)
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