"If you have something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
-Google CEO - Eric Schmidt
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With this broad statement this man who now stands as essentially the czar of information is literally calling for the death of the concept of a private thought - if you might want to keep something to yourself maybe you shouldn't be doing it. And this by its logical conclusion includes all menstruation cycles, the particular form of masturbation that gets your rocks off, your mom's alcohol problem, that
We should all ask Mr. Schmidt how he masturbates. (Sadly he probably doesn't need to much, the laws of power dictate that Mr. Schmidt will have a steady stream of willing participants eager to service this bloated schmucks needs. It's a terrible world that it has to be in the hands of people with such repugnant attitudes about the fundamentals of life.)
What he's saying here is crystal clear: Everything is being retained "for some time" (which means PERMANENTLY duh) and will be made available to the feds (whenever they ask or on a regular basis, whatever, because its anything goes in the ever shrinking world of this soon to be extinct concept known as "privacy." Virtually no laws protecting it) Everything recorded and archived including your google searches and the contents of your wonderful Gmail accounts. Get into trouble and they will very definitely and most importantly retroactively go back and see just exactly what you've been up to. Also once the feds are given EVERYONES past 5 years of gmail the fed will simply run one of those spiders, an automated crawler which looks for key words such as cocaine or blow or snow or acid or "let's kill those motherfuckers" and flags the account for further examination by an agent. Also even if you now go through your email and delete any of those things that you "shouldn't be doing" because you don't want every nosey fascist prick to know about them, it's probably too late, it is likely that every email entering and exiting is logged in parallel database (for further "mining" for whatever goodies contained therein.)