Privacy Concerns About Google

Privacy Concerns About Google

There were always people raising questions about the privacy policy of Google for a long time. However this type of criticism had been low profile until the statement of Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. He participated to television program at CNBC channel and during the program the interviewer raised a question about privacy issues and asked him that if it is right for people to trust Google like their best friends. The answer of Schmidt was very clear: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

This sentence gives us very important clues about the Google's point of view about privacy. In the later parts of the interview he shares some information with the users how Google deals with the privacy issues as: 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.

Google might have chosen to deny all the charges about the privacy violation very clearly and might be cleared of the responsibility of these charges. However they have chosen the other path and they openly accepted the fact that they are watching people. They even went further and said if you have something you do not want people to know about it, do not do it in the first place. With this sentence Google accepts that they watch the actions of users and they will not hesitate to expose it they want to.