Google Wants Privacy In Its House

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Google held a talk at Google’s New York offices last Thursday featuring Vint Cerf, one of the architects of the internet and Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist. My invitation for the event included this paragraph:
In order to support the free and open exchange of information at our speaker series events we ask that attendees refrain from recording or reporting on these meetings, their content or Google. Please contact our communications team at press@google.com if you have any questions regarding this policy.

I didn’t wind up going, and I was planning on asking beforehand the specifics of that request. Like, the fact that it says “attendees refrain from recording or reportin on… Google”, does that mean, like, ever? It’s a vaguely worded request, and one many attendees would proabably violate in small ways, and it certainly pissed off one attendee, who wrote a post titled, “I […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg