So much for "Don't be evil"

[georgmi]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Google invading people's privacy: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

http://gawker.com/5419271/google-ceo-secrets-are-for-filthy-people

Gosh, thanks for the advice, Mr. Schmidt. I will go out right now and stop having a credit card, and allowing my child to go to school, and doing my job for the US DOJ. Because there's no good reason to want to keep those kinds of details out of general circulation except that I am a bad person with something to hide.

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[tylik.livejournal.com]

I just got out of working on a grant we're sending in to google today.

*sigh*

(OTOH, I send in a fellowship application to MS a few months back, and I'm *way* more interested in being funded by google.)

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

It's the utter freaking cluelessness that gets me.

Oh, and the fact that four years ago, Schmidt was so worried about his own privacy that Google blacklisted CNet for publishing personal information about Schmidt that CNet had acquired via Google searches.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/

People are funny, aren't they? I'm glad I'm not one. :/

[valsharess1.livejournal.com]

Yes, I get rather annoyed by people in my acquaintance who seem to think Google are God. They are hypocritical and have faults like any other company. I agree with you assessment.