Google CEO: No Online Anonymity In The Future

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Submitted by Andorin on Thursday August 05, 2010 @07:29PM

Andorin writes "A tweet from the EFF pointed me to a short article which detailed part of Eric Schmidt's speech to the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe on August 4. According to Schmidt, true transparency and anonymity on the Internet will become a thing of the past because of the need to combat criminal and "anti-social" behavior. "Governments will demand it," he says, referring to full accountability and a "name service for people," possibly hinting towards mandatory Internet passports. The CEO of Google also made a couple of somewhat creepy references to the availability of information: ""If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use artificial intelligence, we can predict where you are going to go.. 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!""
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