“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. 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 U.S., to the Patriot
Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.”
-Dec. 2009
“The reason that you should trust us is that if we were to violate that trust people would move immediately to someone else. We’re very non-
sticky so we have a very high interest in maintaining the trust of those users.”
-July 2010
Video Satire:
Schmidt’s Attitude on Privacy
