Wary of Google Street View? Move, CEO Schmidt says

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3 pointscredo3 comments

a) Google's CEO is a bit of a douche. We already knew that.

b) How is taking a picture from a public road even a privacy issue that people care about?

people over estimate the risks of having their privacy invaded.

Google already knows more about you (from your searches) than you think, and the picture they take off the street of you don't even matter. You're better off using some sort of ip mask, and not be logged into a google service when you perform a search.

Schmidt's strategy seems to be to make himself and Google look bad, but since Schmidt is a smart guy and I'm an idiot, I'm trying to figure out what's really going on... Will Google be entering the housing construction market and offer protection from Street View? Does he want people to immigrate to third world countries without a Google presence? Does he want people to stop using roads? The mind boggles!

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