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Lynnwood Finally Makes The Onion

By Michael van Baker
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The story, headlined "Google Responds to Privacy Concerns with Unsettlingly Specific Apology," contains this shout-out to our northern neighbors:

Added Schmidt, "Whether you're Michael Paulson who lives at 3425 Longview Terrace and makes $86,400 a year, or Jessica Goldblatt from Lynnwood, WA, who already has well-established trust issues, we at Google would just like to say how very, truly sorry we are."

Congratulations on Lynnwood's first namecheck by The Onion. Seattle has 88 mentions, including one from the future, where Seattle Mayor Frances Bean Cobain-Osment calls for emergency deforestation.

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State of the Union
Sounds to me like a standard State of the Union speech shout-out.

Can't make public policy without putting a private face on it.

From the GoogleBorg, not so much. Read the NYTimes on international variances in privacy approaches:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/weekinreview/28liptak.html
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