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Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity
Andorin writes "A tweet from the EFF pointed me to a short article detailing part of Eric Schmidt's speech to the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe on August 4. According to Schmidt, true transparency and anonymity on the Internet will become a thing of the past because of the need to combat criminal and 'anti-social' behavior. 'Governments will demand it,' he says, referring to full accountability and a 'name service for people,' possibly hinting towards mandatory Internet passports. The CEO of Google also made a couple of somewhat creepy references to the availability of information: 'If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use artificial intelligence, we can predict where you are going to go ... show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You've got Facebook photos!'"
I predict Erik Schmidt will make George Bush look like Mother Teresa.
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
I could start with seatbelt laws, and take a nice tour along the way to the sex offender's registries around the country. I won't even stop to visit the drunk driving laws, because I happen to like them, in general. The point is, "progressives" progressively legislate anything and everything they can think of. The next baby to die of SIDS will likely have the mother up on charges because she allowed the child to roll over on his stomach while sleeping.
"Progressive" isn't quite the dirty word that liberal of neoconservative are, but it ranks with the closest runners up.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br