Consumer Watchdog’s “Google Track Team” Visits The Capitol
Pictures covering Consumer Watchdog Google Track Team in town to drawing attention to Google creepy tracking and anti-trust behavior
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Google Gets Grief From Senators, Mimes, And An Ice Cream Truck
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Consumer Watchdog sent a "Google Ice Cream Truck" to an exec's home Wednesday morning</p>
What Was Up With The Creepy ‘Google Track Team’ Mimes In The Senate?
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Consumer Watchdog's "Google Track Team" await Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt.</div>
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Protest of the Week: Mimes on Capitol Hill
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It's a lousy radio story. But here's my vote for the most creative protest this week.</p>
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The press release from Consumer Watchdog promises "a troupe of mimes – dressed in white “Google Track Team” suits and wearing Google “Wi-Spy” glasses – will follow people around Dirksen Senate Office Building where the Judiciary hearing will be held. They will dramatize how Google is recording everything consumers do on the Internet."</p>
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Will post pictures when I spot them.</p>
Google Under Government Pressure
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Google's chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. The tech company is under scrutiny for possible antitrust violations and uncompetitive practices.</p>
“Google Track Team” covers Washington DC during Schmidt’s hearing
Here's a round-up of articles, quotes, pics and video of today's events around Washington DC covering our "Google Track Team", in town to draw attention to Google's creepy tracking and anti-trust behavior during Google CEO Eric Schmidt's testimony before Congress:
Mimes Aren’t Silent in Capital Hill Attack on Google
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People flee before the Google-bashing mimes.</p>
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WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Staffers in the U.S. Senate were spied on today--not by any one of our country's enemies. They were tailed by that most unholy of creatures: the mime.</p>
Eric Schmidt Google Senate Hearing – Live Updates
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<strong>The Google chairman, Eric Schmidt, faces a Senate grilling over the power of the internet giant. </strong></p>
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<strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/sep/21/eric-schmidt-google-senate-hearing?INTCMP=SRCH">Click here to read the entire post</a>.</strong></p>
Consumer Watchdog Channeling Marcel Marceau
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Who needs a lobbyist when you can hire a mime to get your message across to lawmakers?</p>
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While talk is currency in Washington, Consumer Watchdog is taking the opposite tack by hiring people who don't talk to highlight the group's concerns over how Google collects information about Internet users.</p>
Is Your Smartphone Stalking You?
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Political Theater Will Follow Google’s Schmidt to D.C.
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When Google chairman Eric Schmidt heads to Washington this week to <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20085029-261/googles-schmidt-to-testify-before-congress-on-sept-21/" title="Google's Schmidt to testify before Congress on Sept. 21 -- Thursday, Jul 28, 2011">testify before Congress</a>, political theater will follow him.</p>
Last Night Of CA Legislature, What Damage Done?
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