“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
—- Google CEO Eric Schmidt to CNBC interviewer Maria Bartiromo
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Ethics Alarms 
Except that he was talking about how anyone who thinks anything should be private must have something to hide. If you are worried that Iran might find out that you have viewed articles critical of the government and might retaliate by punishing your relatives, don’t do that. Be a good little drone.
Of course, he’s a hypocrite. He only means that the little people shouldn’t be allowed privacy.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/
Two different issues, though. Just because having secrets often means that there is acknowledged misconduct being hidden doesn’t give Google the right to expose, us or otherwise misuse someone else’s secrets. Every “whistleblower” who steals proprietary information will use his quote too. It’s an ethical truth that can be used as a rationalization.
Precisely. Well put.
Yeah… much as I agree with that quote, it’s a little different when the CEO of Google says it, considering the gigantic amount of anyone’s information he has access to.