Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy

Stolly · 8 Dec 2009 at 21:38

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

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/

There you go. Privacy is criminal.

Stolly · 8 Dec 2009 at 21:59

NickK said:
So when his bank details appear on the net.. no worries then.

No, when Cnet posted some of his private details that they got off Google he blacklisted their reporters for a year.

Hyprocrite ? Just a bit.

Stolly · 8 Dec 2009 at 22:41

regulus said:
That he didn't mean bank and credit card details goes without saying. The only persons caring about the contents of your email is 'you' and whoever sent it to you. The rest of the world couldn't give a crap about Lorna and Big Jim's holiday piccies, Emma's first uni shots, your penis needing some extra size, that girl you're secretly been mailing or you adressing your mother as Mommy in your emails to her.

As for what you google, perhaps Schmidt has a point. If you have nothing to hide, why does it matter?

Before someone jumps on me, I personally like operating privately online, but if push comes to shove, I have nothing to hide.

Gah, going to bed now as my typing is getting lazy and spelling errors creeping in.

That he meant browsing habits is just as bad. Find your car insurance premiums inexplicably go up after browsing for a garage that carries out performance tuning ?

Whats wrong, nothing to hide huh ?

Stolly · 8 Dec 2009 at 22:42

Did you know they want you to use Google DNS now as well ?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12...le_public_dns/

Not only with their own browser, their own DNS. I wonder if one day we find it hard to get to the websites that Google doesn't want you to see ? We already know that Google makes things disappear from search results if the right government says so. What if major ISP's take money from Google to use their DNS ? For none tech-savvy internet users (ie the vast majority) Google could make sites just un-exist.

While handing over your browsing history to who knows who.

Stolly · 8 Dec 2009 at 22:49

http://startpage.com/

Does not record IP addresses. My new homepage.

Stolly · 8 Dec 2009 at 22:50

Ziggy said:
LOL seriously?

OK I should read the article shouldn't I.

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

Stolly · 8 Dec 2009 at 23:17

Ziggy said:
Heh, just a *tad* misleading. All they did was refuse to give interviews to CNET reporters:

"Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News reporters"

Rather than blacklist them from Google which is what is heavily implied.

when Cnet posted some of his private details that they got off Google he blacklisted their reporters for a year.

I did say reporters and not from Google