Every time I read that claim I feel like sharing this article: "Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’" https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/12...

Apply that logic to passwords, which are being sent in plain text here. By his logic, you should have no password protected data, lest anyone know about it. Strictly he's correct: it's stupid to assume anything will remain secret, particularly if you don't keep it to yourself. Schmidt, motorola, google, public wifi, can they keep secrets?

It's also funny how upset he feels when the shoe is on the other foot, as lampooned by this slashdot poster: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3645419&cid=4344175...

Yes he said that, but it was immediately followed by his actual point which was that in the United States your communications are not secure.

"But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we're all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/google-ceo-on-priva...