Perhaps the best article I've seen pointing out the intellectual deficiencies of Eric Schmidt's views on private information is "Eric Schmidt's privacy policy is one scary philosophy -- Offhand comments by Schmidt about privacy hints that Google is spying, critics say" by Julie Bort and posted on networkworld.com. I'll quote just one of over a dozen of Julie's stinging points:
"...If you don't want to share with people what you've eaten for lunch, maybe you shouldn't eat it..."
One thing that is good about this tempest that started December 8th: The subject is hot, and the ferment will almost certainly result in multiple academic papers that prove beyond any doubt that Schmidt's position is false, destructive, misleading, self-serving, or all of the above. Just in researching this short article I encountered a multitude of well-stated, rational arguments that rapidly lay the foundation for such a paper.
Commentators on this posting should post their addresses, home phone numbers, and most recent sexual liason's name in their posting, please.
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