Google does not give the first fuck about privacy.

- "Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."

- Eric Schmidt, to the Atlantic

- "I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions [...] They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

- Eric Schmidt, to the WSJ

- "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

- Eric Schmidt, to CNBC

- "Just move"

- Eric Schmidt, to CNN, on objections that people have to Streetview imaging their houses

- "In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."

- Eric Schmidt, 2010 Technology Conference

- "In this new future you're never lost...We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time...Your car will drive itself, it's a bug that cars were invented before computers...you're never lonely...you're never bored...you're never out of ideas."

- Eric Shmidt, TechCrunch Distrupt

- "The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information."

- Eric Schmidt, 2010 Google Zeitgeist conference

I read his book. It broke Google for me. Fuck "don't be evil" they're fucking evil. And they aren't innovative, they're iterative. Every advance Google has ever made has been done Edison-style - "beat your face against the problem until the blood spots form a Rorschach Test of inspiration." Need a better GIS dataset? DRIVE THE WORLD. Need better search capabilities? INDEX EVERYTHING. Need non-text search? HOST ALL THE VIDEOS AND PUSH INTO VOICE INTEGRATION. There is nothing clever about anything Google does; they just wrap Dickensian brute force in a sparkly jellybean coating.

They don't think they're "doing consumers a favor." They don't give the first fuck about consumers.

If it's free, the product is YOU.