I recently read an article claiming that Google does not properly display its privacy policy. According to California law it has to display it openly and conspicuously (a big word that means you can’t hide it). So without cheating, I promptly left the article and went straight to Google.com to find it for myself.

So we’ll start, and we’ll count the clicks it takes as well, since later on the in the article not only do they reveal the location but one person even claims “its not just a few clicks.” To me a few equals five. Given that background, lets count.

int numclicks = 0;

Once on www.google.com I looked around and saw nothing that said privacy. No real surprise there. So I, in what I felt was fairly obvious and intuitive clicked, “About Google.”

numclick += 1;

From there I resumed my search for the word privacy. That makes me sound like a computer or something but thats how you work. Your brain constantly does keyword searches. Within seconds the words “Privacy Policy” were instantly found exactly where you would expect them. At the bottom beside the copyright. So I clicked “Privacy Policy.”

numclick += 1;

That then takes me to another page. The real point of this page is something I’m not sure of, but none the less your there and inside a large blue box are giant blue letters that read “Google Privacy Policy.” So I clicked it.

numclick += 1;

Bottabing bottaboom. There you go. A clean, simple, looking privacy policy that I won’t even attempt to read because I don’t care. The point here is after it was all said and done:

printf(%d, numclick);
3

Well last I checked that was not only obvious and ridiculously easy to find, it only took three clicks which is less than 5 and thus I have proven that idiot the BBC interviewed has never used the internet. Do come back.

Enjoy the Penguins!

EDIT: The guy said “couple” not a “few.” A couple is two. I counted three. The man is still an idiot, I don’t care.