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Google CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy
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A one-minute CNBC clip in which Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that if you have something you do not want anyone to know, perhaps you should not be doing it. The remark became a notorious line in privacy debates.
HN cites it as the source of the quote and as a critical example of the nothing-to-hide attitude toward privacy.
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