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For Google, Is There Such Thing As Too Creepy?

Digital Daily is working on an authoritative compendium of "Unsettling Quotations From Powerful CEOs." No, it actually just compiled some really "creepy" statements from Google CEO Eric Schmidt regarding privacy and Google's grander ambitions.

Said Schmidt in one instance: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Regarding Google, Schmidt asserted: "We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about." Meanwhile, what Google is really up to, said Schmidt, is "building an augmented version of humanity, building computers to help humans do the things they don't do well better." Yep, that's pretty creepy. Though it appears as though Schmidt has yet to exhaust his creepy capacity, and is now moving into the realm of threats and bullying. On CNN's "Parker Spitzer" program last week - which is pretty creepy itself -- Schmidt said that people who don't like Google's Street View cars taking pictures of their homes and businesses "can just move."

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  1. Stuart Jenner from Marketek Consulting Group, October 27, 2010 at 4:31 p.m.

    I was talking with a friend recently who's writing a book. For his book he has had to research a lot of nasty topics. He and I were joking about "what would someone think if they could see my searches?" Mr Schmidt's comments make that joke ring hollow. The problem is that Google does not give context, nor does it give anyone a chance to explain themselves if that data on what we search for were to escape.

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