Comments on: Google CEO: Techies must educate governments

Tensions between privacy and ready access to data lace visions for 2016 tech by Eric Schmidt and Microsoft VP Rick Rashid.

[Russell McOrmond]

Who owns the Black Box?

The end of the article opens up a similar debate to the copyright one, and one where politically aware technology people must weigh in very strongly.

The most controvercial part of recent copyright revision is DRM, or the presumption that someone other than the owner of hardware should be in control of that hardware.

As these devices become more personal to us as individuals it should be more and more obvious that it must be their owners who are legally protected, and that third parties should be legally prohibited from control or access without informed consent from their owners.

http://www.flora.ca/documents/digital-ownership.html

[ghostofitpast]

Teachers and students

So Schmidt wants the techies to "educate" governments, as your headline puts it? This is all very well and good to say from the splendid isolation of the Googleplex or the podium. Did it ever occur to Schmidt that it is as important for "those in the know about technology" to BECOME BETTER EDUCATED about the nature and working of governments as it is to inform others about the Internet's role in society? Did it ever occur to him that the best teachers are the best listeners, rather than the best performers in front of a mass audience? Socrates knew this sort of thing and was very good at it, but my recent experience has shown that techies do not have much time for Socrates. If Schmidt does not watch out, he will find that the adversarial relationship in which he is already engaged will only get more adversarial!

[kael10]

Mr. Schmidt owes his success largely to a global network of mobster fiends is what I hear from rival mafia. They say it was him that was directly responsible for the colosal profits made from promoting child pornography with the Google search engine.
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