In a statement updated from 2009 and 2010, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc., has reiterated his belief that people need extremely little privacy, saying: “If you’re doing something that you don’t want anyone to see, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.
If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that most actions can be monitored with thermal imaging technology, and minimum privacy search engines – including Google – do retain this information for some time, and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act, and it is definite that all that information should be made available to the authorities.”
So as to create no confusion as to exactly what he was saying, Schmidt then added, “In a world of confabulated threats, there is a dissimulation that it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. I want verified name services for people so I know exactly who you all are.
I can get governments to demand it.” He also said, “If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, using apps you allow to be auto-updated because you don’t realise that I can change the permissions requested at my whim, and if I use artificial intelligence, I can see exactly where you are within a metre. Show me 14 photos of yourself and I can identify who you are. You think you don’t have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You’ve got Facebook photos even if you don’t have a Facebook account! I made sure of it.”
Um, yeah. Stalking behaviour, much? No wonder people are demanding greater and greater privacy with narcisstists like Schmidt deciding who should have access to our data. Before we know it, he’ll be saying we should remove the doors to our bedrooms and bathrooms just so he and his pet governments can see exactly what we get up to during the ever briefer moments of imagined privacy that are obviously all he wants to leave us.