Did Google just become evil? The search giant created an art contest for kids called Doodle-4-Google, which sounds all cute and sweet and everything until you realize that it might have been a horrible ruse to get the Social Security numbers of thousands of our nation’s innocent youth! Bob Bowdon, director of the education-corruption documentary The Cartel, noticed that to enter the contest, parents had to fork over their kids’ birthday, city of birth, and last four digits of their Social Security number. With those three pieces of data, it’s apparently relatively easy to guess someone’s full number……Read This Hot News
Why Was Google Collecting Kids’ Social Security Numbers?
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