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Google is either lying to the court or lying to the public, Consumer Watchdog said today, after the Internet giant made new public claims asserting it respects users’ privacy–claims that are starkly contradicted by an earlier court filing it would probably prefer you not see. Google told Consumer Watchdog on Wednesday that ‘we take our users’ privacy and security very seriously…We have built industry-leading security and privacy features in Gmail." But in a motion to dismiss a class action suit filed in the case of Smith vs. Maryland (442 U.S.read more

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William Henry, Chad Steumke and Mark Gray are all deeply involved in the search for stargates and portals to other realities. Here, they discuss why they believe that Google’s new game, Ingress, debases this quest by using it as the basis for conflict-centered game. The game trivializes a quest that has profoundly affected the lives of many people, including William, Chad and Mark, by reducing it to a conflict-soaked fictional narrative. At the same time, a significant amount of genuine information has been used in the game, creating the false impression that the search for stargates is in some way related to conflict, which it is not.
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