Google CEO on Street View and Privacy

Posted on October 25, 2010

All Things Digital reports that Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly said on CNN's "Parker Spitzer" program that people who are unhappy with Google's Street View cars photographing their homes "can just move."

Appearing on CNN's "Parker Spitzer" program last week, he said that people who don't like Google's Street View cars taking pictures of their homes and businesses "can just move" afterward to protect their privacy. Ironically, he said this on the very day that Google admitted those cars captured more than just fragments of personal payload data.

All Things Digital says Schmidt's comments have been edited out of the CNN transcript. Hopefully, this means it was a misquote. Schmidt did acknowledge in the interview that people have a right to privacy. He said, "See, I would argue that this - what we learned from this is that privacy is more important, not less important and that people have a right of privacy and they have a right of private behavior and that we need to respect that as a society."