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"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

- Eric Schmidt, 2009 as CEO of Google, on concerns about privacy and Google's insatiable appetite for info

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...

Yes, people bring up this quote all the time so it seems cliche to do so ... but I don't care. I say choke him on his own words for being so casual about it in the first place -- when it affected others, that is; he had a very public hissy-fit when someone publicized details about him, even blocked Cnet.com from Google for a time if I recall right.



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