Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
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Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
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Re: Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
#2Uh, the last four digits. If it was the whole thing, I'd say this is somewhat valid, but the required information seems to be kind of just... checking that they're real people.
Re: Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
#3Someone needs to lookup Hanlon's razor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_Razor
Also, daring fireball doesn't add anything. Link to the original source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-bowdon/why-has-google-been...
Re: Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
#4Here is Google's press release from the Huffington Post article:
This year we started accepting doodles from kids even if their school hadn't registered for the contest. To help us keep entries distinct and remove duplicate entries from any particular student, we asked parents for limited information, including the last 4 digits of a student's social security number. We later updated our forms when we recognized that we could sufficiently separate legitimate contest entries while requesting less information. To be clear, these last 4 digits were not entered into our records and will be safely discarded.
As for the city of birth: The city of birth helps us identify whether contestants are eligible for the contest, as winners must be either U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents of the U.S. The information isn't used for any other purpose."
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-bowdon/why-has-google-been...
Re: Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
#5Someone needs to lookup Hanlon's razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_Razor Also, daring fireball doesn't add anything. Link to the original source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-bowdon/why-has-google-been...
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Re: Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
#6Someone needs to lookup Hanlon's razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_Razor Also, daring fireball doesn't add anything. Link to the original source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-bowdon/why-has-google-been...
Your wikipedia link is dead. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_Razor
Re: Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
#7Much like happy meals with toys inside, it does imprint the google brand on the youngins though. Predators like hyena typically go after the weak vulnerable children so it would make sense that the most modern predator, a corporation, would as well.
Re: Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
#8Yup. Google went through the effort of creating of an art contest to collect SSNs. Cause after all, if they were that unscruplous, an art contest makes more sense rather than looking at people's Gmail accounts or keylogging their Chrome usage.
I swear something about the word Google causes Gruber and apparently many other people to stop functioning at their normally intelligent levels.
Re: Google Collecting Kids' SS Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
#9Let's talk about paranoia...