[aklug] Re: I find this statement a bit worrisome

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, barsalou wrote:

> Eric Schmidt made a statement that I'm quoting from slashdot:
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/08/0127219/Google-CEO-Says-Privacy-Worries-Are-For-Wrongdoers
>
> ... 'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe
> you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.' ...
>
> Anyone else feel the same way? This seems to be a very slippery slope
> he is going down.

The guy is obviously a socialist pig. Not that you couldn't tell that from
his political contributions.

This isn't a question about morality or ethics, it's a question about a
constitutional right to privacy. And this jackass obviously doesn't care
about our constitutional rights.

How safe do you google app users feel now? This is one of many reasons why
I refuse to host mail or any other personal content on hardware I don't own
and control. If you think any government/corporate interest isn't going to
use your data to their own ends you're hopelessly naive.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. I don't have a strong feeling
about this one way or another. ;-)

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Tue Dec 8 09:14:28 2009