Schneier vs. Schmidt on "privacy is for those who have something to hide."

By at 5:47 pm Wednesday, Dec 9

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information for some time... we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act..." —Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in 2009. Here's Bruce Schneier's response, from 2006.

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