Startup Chatter by Donna Bogatin

Google continues to defiantly obtain, track, manipulate and archive, all the world’s video viewing habits, all the while self-declaring its $170 billion corporate personal data mining exploitation to be for the public good!

What’s more, Google continues to shrewdly get away with its non-transparent, over-reaching, self-interested, for big Google profit, interference with the privacy of online user activity, all the while inciting disdain for any party that seeks to shed sunlight on what it is that Google really does with the reams of private user data and non-authorized copies of copyright content it stockpiles in its server farms all over the world.

Contrary to mis-guided, anti-Viacom and anti-U.S. judicial system blogosphere “outrage,: however, it is Google that remains online privacy enemy number one, despite many willingly enabling Google to ride rough shot over their own video “histories.”

SEE: Shocking! YouTube’s Google KNOWS What YOU Like to Watch!

The biggest July 4 Google (bad) joke of all regarding any Googley concern for user privacy, however, comes to U.S. citizens courtesy of Mountain View multi-billionaires Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and right-hand multi-millionaire woman, Marissa Mayer, the purported safeguard of the Google “user experience.”

The ingenuity with which Google succeeds in enveloping all of its anti-user practices in feel-good Googley lore continues to (negatively) impress.

Mayer cites Page and Brin insistence for a pristine Google home page at the Official Google Blog in attempting to explain away a hidden privacy “link” DISCLAIMER as a way to safeguard Google’s self-imposed , but inaccurate, 28 “words.”

Despite proclaiming “At Google, we’re committed to transparency,” on its spanking new propaganda tool: “Google Privacy center,” Google mocks its very proclamation by concocting a “privacy” link on its home page that is designed to be NOT FOUND AND NOT CLICKED ON by ordinary users, given the deliberate, inconsistently tiny font, insufficient nomenclature, “fine-print” placement…

What do Brin, Mayer, Schmidt…really “value first and foremost”? GOOG!

If Google really was firmly in the user trust camp, it would preserve its cutesy 28 world homepage “limit” by replacing the LARGE FONT DOUBLE WORD COUNT “Advertising Programs” GOOG sales pitch with the link “Privacy Policies,” and relegate the “advertising” link to the non-read “disclaimer” basement Google.com real estate.

MORE: “At ARF, Advertisers Demand Google Pass MRC Audit for Ad Planner“

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