<story><title>Schneier&apos;s response to Eric Schmidt</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ekiru</author><text>It&apos;s very nice for Bruce Schneier to express opposition to invasion of privacy. I agree with him. But unless I totally misunderstand Schmidt&apos;s comments, Schmidt is not suggesting people should not make love to their wives, for example, but rather, that if you are going to do something that you don&apos;t want the government to know about you, you shouldn&apos;t give it to someone that is legally obligated to tell the government about it if they ask.&lt;p&gt;Regardless of how Google feels about privacy, it&apos;s unreasonable to expect them to martyr themselves for our sakes when the Department of Justice or the FBI knock on their door with a subpoena. The way to protect your privacy is to not tell people things you don&apos;t want them to know(or to use Tor or the like).&lt;p&gt;Edit: fixed a minor typo</text></comment>
<story><title>Schneier&apos;s response to Eric Schmidt</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maudineormsby</author><text>What a fantastic last paragraph. Something from the original essay that was left out:&lt;p&gt;&quot;A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause. Of course being watched in your own home was unreasonable. Watching at all was an act so unseemly as to be inconceivable among gentlemen in their day. You watched convicted criminals, not free citizens. You ruled your own home. It&apos;s intrinsic to the concept of liberty.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Foucault argued that the very act of being watched was dehumanizing. Google shouldn&apos;t watch us because it violates our rights, but because it&apos;s &lt;i&gt;evil&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>