Straight back at Eric Schmidt: "If you have to look at people's personal data to do something, maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
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Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#12reminds me of this riff on privacy by Bruce Schneier from a few years back addressing the same notion that Schmidt is quoted here to believe
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_p...
Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#13"If you have something to hide, maybe you shouldn't be doing it" is valid not only in the context of net privacy but much more so as a general rule.
Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#14My corollary: if you have something to hide, and doing it is a good or neutral thing, then you have identified a bug in society. You probably ought to fix that.
Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#15"If you have something to hide, maybe you shouldn't be doing it" is valid not only in the context of net privacy but much more so as a general rule.
You're kidding, right? Tell me you're kidding.
Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#16If you wanted to end Google, all you would have to do is offer a reward for a whistleblower to videotape a privacy violation at Mountain View.
Imagine putting that on Youtube.
(EDIT: yes, I know they own Youtube. Of course they'll take it down. But it would be reposted on Vimeo and the like, and the publicity for the takedown would cause the Streisand effect).
Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#17We need a privacy contract similar to Richard Stallman's GNU General Public License. Something standard that both parties can quickly understand and agree to.
Idea: A new competing search engine could release a General Privacy Agreement along with their search service.
Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#18Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#19I'd like Eric Schmidt to publicly release his search history, both his work-related and private searches.
Eric Schmidt has never had anything to hide, like cheating on his wife... Oh wait...
All of these guys are hypocrites; when will you guys realize this? Oh, and that gas-guzzling 767 with the private shower is being used to "create good in places like Africa" (or whatever they had said), right?
Re: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
#20Cool, so Google will be publishing the search histories of all Google employees by name?
Hypocrite.