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Google is announcing that it is beta-releasing a smart-drink to help you surf better.
But what they say only in the fine print is that the drinks come with secret spy technology:
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 GulpPlex™, 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.
Tallk about drinking the Kool-Aid.
Read more about it here and check the FAQ, too.
Pretty evil, if you ask me, coming from a company supposedly dedicated to the maxim of "Do No Evil."
Has anyone thought about what would happen if someone spiked the punch bowl with this stuff?
Also has anyone thought about what it would mean if the damn B.F. Skinner-trained Google pigeons ever got their hands (okay, feet) on this stuff.
Just watch them fly away with your privacy.
Posted by Ryan Singel at April 1, 2005 11:58 AM
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