Since the whole PRISM thing blew up , and gobs of other Snowden divine revelation come after it , there ’s been a slew of talk about governance spotting — extraneous stuff and domestic survellience — and what these revelations intend . harmonise toGoogle ’s executive president Eric Schmidt , not much ; this is just part of our fellowship now .
In an event hosted by the New America Foundation origination yesterday , Schmidt acknowledge that it ’s good to have conversation about what the government is doing . But as whether or not what the government is currently doing is o.k. , well , he ’s not going to judge . Fromthe Guardian :
There ’s been spying for yr , there ’s been surveillance for class , and so forth , I ’m not going to pass judgment on that , it ’s the nature of our gild .
He ’s certainly not improper about both detection and surveillance being permeating . In its own way , Google is founded on ( consensual ) surveillance . Still , that ’s not to say Schmidt does n’t have any concern about all this malarky . They just rest elsewhere .
The real risk [ from ] the publicity about all of this is that other res publica will begin to put very serious encryption – we employ the term ‘ balkanization ’ in general – to essentially part the internet and that the net ’s fit to be much more country specific . That would be a very speculative thing , it would really damp the way the internet work , and I think that ’s what I worry about .
It ’s a valid business concern . It just comes down to whether the problem is what the NSA is doing , or the frenzied talk around it . But neither of those is potential to change any time presently . [ The Guardian ]
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