“Back in 2009, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told CNBC that ‘if you are doing something you don’t want anybody to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.’ Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an interview with Schmidt, during which he said: ‘The NSA allegedly collected the phone records of 320 million people in order to identify roughly 300 people who might be a risk. It’s just bad public policy…and perhaps illegal. You have to take a strong position in favor of privacy. Privacy is really the right to be left alone. Do you really want the government tracking all of those information, especially if you’re just a domestic citizen who is just going about your life?'”
http://www.privacysos.org/node/1225
Related posts:
Harvard researchers: US police killings should be a public health issue
Military grade secured Computationcenter in modern Armybunker
Fremont prison offers ‘quieter’ prison stay — for cash
How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria
Russian report on chemical attack indicates similarity with rebel-made weapons
DEA paid Amtrak secretary $854,460 for data available to it for free
Half Of Tor Sites Compromised, Including Tormail
This Trade Treaty Got Better when the US Bailed
US 'Secret' Drone Base and Ron Paul's Foreign Policy
Survey Finds that 41 Percent of Small Business Owners Have Frozen Hiring Because of Obamacare
Four arrested during protest of nudity ban in San Francisco
Arizona Man Holding Air Rifle Killed In His Own Backyard In Drug Raid
Australia: Another Toll Road Goes Bankrupt
Glenn Greenwald: On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation
Indiana: Court Overturns Stop For Hole In Tail Light