…Atlantic Magazine recently pointed to a number of articles in which top executives at Google (such as CEO Eric Schmidt) have made statements that suggest they see Google applications so thoroughly embedded in people’s lives that any real sense of privacy, if privacy is defined as the ability to control information about oneself, disappears. These articles are:
- We Know What You’re Thinking by Andrew Orlowski
- The Schmidt Problem by Nick Saint
- A Creepy Future by Ian Paul
- Eric Schmidt: Google Tries to Get Right Up to the Creepy Line by Matthew Zuras
Now Google isn’t the only online company in the world with privacy issues (think Facebook), but vision of human computer interaction here is one that makes one pause over what Google could possibly mean by “evil” in their famous slogan…