Google CEO: Change Your Name to Escape Our Watchful Eye

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via PC World.

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Google is often accused of behaving like Big Brother, and Google's CEO Eric
Schmidt isn't doing much to dispel those perceptions. In fact, in an
interview  with the Wall Street Journal, Schmidt dropped an interesting --
and frightening -- tidbit: perhaps people should change their names upon
reaching adulthood to eradicate the potentially reputation-damaging search
records Google keeps.

"'I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is
available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,' [Schmidt] says.
He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be
entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in
order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media
sites," the Wall Street Journal reports.

This isn't the first time Schmidt has made parental -- and borderline
moralistic -- statements about Internet behavior. Late last year Schmidt
told CNBC that "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know,
maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

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More:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/203450/google_ceo_change_your_name_to_escape
_our_watchful_eye.html

Enjoy!

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
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