“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! People will find it’s very useful to have devices that remember what you want to do, because you forgot…But society isn’t ready for questions that will be raised as result of user-generated content.” “If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence,” Schmidt said, “we can predict where you are going to go.”
Eric Schmidt explained at Techonomy that the future demanded transparency to keep us safe at a loss of our privacy. Google’s mission to collect and categorise the world’s information including everything every one of us does moment by moment on the internet will rob us of our anonymity as part of a business strategy to make money. FOR GOOGLE!! Eric Schmidt has led the idealistic Google down the slippery slope of back room politics and intrigue.
How ironic is the Android fanboy meme that holds Google on a pedestal and vilifies Apple. It would make a great ironicly twisted scifi novel. But its too late for that.
And that’s not even mentioning Google’s latest back room caper with Verizon which Tim Wu writes about here.
