To: RealMuLan who wrote (9122 ) 10/28/2010 11:28:51 AM From: RealMuLan Read Replies (1) | Respond to OT:"With Street View, we drive by exactly once, so you can just move." cnn.com 'Google CEO's Eric Schmidt's off-the-cuff answer that people who don't want their homes photographed for Google Street View should "just move" raises the question: Move where? Just where on this planet are you safe from Google's prying eyes? Schmidt has made it clear time and time again that he believes that Google should have access to virtually any information it wants about people --- and that's a good thing not just for Google, but the people whose privacy has been invaded as well.Let's say you're walking down the street. Because of the info Google has collected about you, "we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are." Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are. Mr. Schmidt leaves it to a listener to imagine the possibilities: If you need milk and there's a place nearby to get milk, Google will remind you to get milk. It will tell you a store ahead has a collection of horse-racing posters, that a 19th-century murder you've been reading about took place on the next block. "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." blogs.computerworld.com
