Google chief vows to protect users' privacy

Bobbie Johnson,
Wednesday November 8, 2006
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1942173,00.html

This article is about google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt going against the decision made by the Bush Administration to obtain all the user's searches etc. He that he went to court for it and under The Partiots Act, he does not need to share the privacy of the users who have used Google as a search engine.

This opinion of Scmidt has only come aboout when President Bush faced very bad results at the mid-term elections making it very hard for him to make any laws etc.

Schmidt still believes that Google will come under pressure in the future to share the users' private information of searches.

My opinion:

I think that Schmidt is right for holding the private information back and only in extreme circumstances should it be used. However, the fact that Schmidt has only aired his views when the Bush Administration is under threat shows how he might only have done it because there is little that they can do now. Also, some people have never known that Google records everything you search and other people may use more than 1 computer so its information s not strictly accurate.