Microsoft warns users to beware the "GMail Man"

[apples and oranges]

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The video is just one in a string of attacks Microsoft has made on Google’s privacy policies. On Feb. 1 Microsoft took out a series of attack ads in American newspapers including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The ads call Google’s privacy changes unpopular and suggest its primary concern is pleasing advertisers. They also suggest a switch to Microsoft’s mail products, Hotmail and Office 365.

Google has responded to the attacks with a blog post that aims to clarify myths about its privacy policy. It also released a letter to American members of congress who called for Google chief Larry Page to brief them on the changes.

The letter quoted a recent Global News piece in which Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian praises the changes. “By pulling it all together into one central location and simplifying it, it makes it much more accessible and user friendly,” Cavoukian told Global. “So I think this is a positive development.”

There is a long history to the Microsoft and Google feud. Last summer Google released its own attack ad, which suggested Gmail users hold interventions for friends using an antiquated mail service—a thinly veiled reference to Hotmail.

http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/03/microsoft-attacks-google-privacy-with-gmail-man-spoof/

[msongs]

1. google doesnt need my unlisted phone number for any legitimate reason. nt

[progressoid]

2. heh. Posted on youtube.

Isn't youtube owned by Google?

[originalpckelly]

5. The fucking irony.

And the thing is, you'll probably get an ad about something in the video...

[JackRiddler]

3. Failed dystopic power complaining about dominant dystopic power.

A plague o' both their houses, to be sure, but Google's sudden coming out with rationalizations for its position as voluntary surveillance empire is creepy.

[Rex]

4. As if it wasn't bad enough AT&T spies on us for the govt.

Funny how the govt needs to know everything about us. Really, not that funny.

[originalpckelly]

6. Yeah, but they're right, right?

And I hate Microsoft.

I just hate Google now.

[JackRiddler]

9. Yes. All week I've been exposed to the insulting Google ads on the subway.

Wish I had the talent for not seeing ads, but unfortunately...

and yes.

[hobbit709]

7. Microsoft accusing someone else about this?

[originalpckelly]

8. What would be really funny is if...

someone reposted this video with a blue screen of death interrupting it.



Double rue-age.