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this is supposed to be a good thing?

Started by johnlilly · 3 months ago

in yesterday’s Financial Times, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, says:
Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said gathering more personal data was a key way for Google to expand and the company believes that is the logical extension of its stated mission to ... Continue reading »

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  • This is particularly freaky given David's post.
  • I'm surprised that Schmidt used the words "total information" together. Immaterial of what he meant or was referring to, the last time we were faced with a "total information" program, it didn't go over very well.
  • Totally not related to the meat of your post, which I tend to agree with, but that's one of my favorite episodes of Sports Night. That reference draws a distinct picture in my head of what you are feeling right now.

    A large part of Firefox's success was built on keeping Internet users safe. What happens when we reach the point where we need to start keeping people safe from Google as well? That, sir, is going to be a hard day.
  • yay! someone understood my reference! i was thinking it was maybe too esoteric & weird... :-)

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