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Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past"

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-how-you-play dept.

Google's Eric Schmidt says that people's private lives are so well documented now that the young will have to change their names when reaching adulthood to avoid their youthful indiscretions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Schmidt says: "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time." A fresh start from the stupid things you did as a kid seems like a good thing. Now we just need a way to get rid of the dreaded family photo album.

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  1. Robert');DROP TABLE Students;-- by Ranger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://xkcd.com/327/

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  2. Re:Either that by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how about the rest of us just grow the fuck up?

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  3. Re:Either that by calzones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait????

    This guy is right on the money. It's not necessarily provable fact, and it's a broad brush, but there's much wisdom and merit within his hypothesis.

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