“Google Executive Chairman Eric Shmidt on Thursday responded to comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook referring to the Internet search giant’s privacy policies, saying Cook is misinformed and that Google’s systems are ‘far more secure’ than anything Apple has,” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider. “In an interview with CNN, Schmidt told CNN Money anchor Christine Romans that Google is a leader in data privacy and any contention to that fact, such as a recent missive from Cook, is incorrect. ‘Someone didn’t brief him correctly on Google’s policies, that’s unfortunate for him,’ Schmidt said of Cook. ‘In Google’s place, we have always been the leader in security and in encryption. Our systems are far more secure and encrypted than anyone else, including Apple. They’re catching up, which is great.'”
“As part of Apple’s recent push for consumer privacy, Cook last month published an open letter to the company’s website, reinforcing that iCloud user data is not only secure, but will never be monetized. A section of the note suggests unnamed service providers harvest sensitive user information for monetary gains, a business model to which privacy advocates are vehemently opposed. From Cook’s letter: ‘A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product,'” Campbell reports. “During today’s interview, Schmidt said, “All the things [Cook] implied we’re doing, we don’t do.” The Google exec did, however, note that Gmail does display ads to users, something the company has done for a decade. He quickly pointed out that information gathered in the email ad serving process is used ‘for nothing,’ but did not elaborate on the subject.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, that’s the ticket. Oh, and this:
And this:
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He’s been making it up as he goes along for long enough to have lost any confidence that he will ever tell a straight story again.
A complete evil lying SOS who will stop at nothing to win objectives. Who’s kidding who as Schmidt achieves nefarious ends at any cost, including sacrificing and betraying friendships and making yourself and your company the sworn enemy of an tech industry leader. Smooth move Ex-lax!
Google’s sole reason to exist is to “use” your data!
All else is B.S.
They’re not harvesting data? Then what about that pedophile Google caught about a month ago? I’m all for busting pedophiles, but this guy was sending pictures via Gmail. If Google wasn’t harvesting data, how did they come across the pics?
There was no law enforcement or government surveillance involved, Google found the pics in this pervert’s email and called the authorities on their own initiative. So Google is a harvester of data and a self appointed protector of children. Congratulations on popping the perv but there goes any claim you might make about not mining data.
“Google doesn’t harvest data”. Bull Schmidt!
SOS = “sack of Schmidt”
——RM
🙂 Exactly.
Ah, Mr Blood reads Neil Stephenson, I see!
Did he say “Google is a leader in data privacy” or “Google is a leader in data piracy”?
“People will believe the lie if you keep telling it. Right?”
– Eric Schmidt.
The bigger the lie the more believable it is.
(Joseph Goebbels, German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda)
1. “used for nothing.” Then electrons are burned for zero reason ?
2. I don’t know if Google is more secure, but Apple finds ways to fall short.
What else would you expect from Eric T. Mole?
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Hmm. how did you make that go off the page? Very effective.
I love how you laughed all the way of the edge of the screen!
He’s lying again!
Q: How can you tell if Eric Schmitt is lying?
A: He’s awake.
somewhat like Obola.
He’s still alive?
I bet Schmidt constantly has dogs following him around wanting to smell his face because so much crap comes out of his mouth.
I think Google *MIGHT* become a better company if they can remove Schmidt. It’s like “Dick Jones” is trying to run OCP with his criminal connections, whereas the “old man” (Larry Page, not so old) is morally gray.
For Eric, Mendacity is the capital of Schmidtville.
This was almost as hilarious to read as when I watched a Microsoft keynote and Balmer said “we’ve seen incredible innovation from Microsoft over the past few years. We helped to usher in the smartphone era.” Thanks for the laughs, MDN.
The repulsive gnome is lying through his teeth.
there is a handy and also fittingly descriptive german term for people like him, that would be “gift zwerg”
literally denoting a “poisonous dwarf” but i prefer the connotative meaning – “malignant dwarf” seems to capture him a bit better.
Dear Mr. Schmidt:
1) Create a test web page and place it on your personal website but don’t link to it.
2) Send an email with a link to that page from some email service to a gmail address.
3) Get some coffee or maybe dinner.
4) Check your web server logs and notice that GoogleBot has indexed that page.
5) Send apology to Mr. Cook
Probably coincidental…
/s for anyone that can’t see the obvious.
You’re kidding, right? Web crawlers follow links — They can’t divine URLs on their own. When you follow the steps I outlined, it’s no more than a day before GoogleBot visits a page for which the only way it could have found it was to parse a piece of mail traversing their servers.
Schmidt:
“Don’t watch what we actually DO, listen to what I SAY. Hee hee heh heh heh heh hah.”
M.r Schmidt, you are sounding more and more like Steve Balmer every day.
He’s Google’s own version of “Bagdad Bob.”
Schmidt has an endless supply of lies hidden deep within the pock-marked craters scattered across over his ugly face
Nasty comment from you adds nothing to the discussion. I am sure that your own physical condition is perfect.
captain save-a-ho ready to jump into action
He’s taking lessons from Obama, its the old joke, How can you tell when he’s lying? Answer: His lips are moving….
Try to stay on topic, d-bag.
lying is the topic, and Obola is the maestro.
He just bent the needle on my BS-meter.
Google’s primary business is harvesting data. Think about it. That’s what they built the empire on.
I feel like the Groundhog Day movie. Bill Gates used to say in interviews that Windows was more secure. Claimed Macs were compromised every day. Gave me my humor for the day.
Lying sack o’Schmidt
“If you have something you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
Schmidt is using an old trick. He is conflating security and privacy. He may be correct that Google is overall more secure than Apple (Only the respective companies would know.). Google may have far more extensive encryption and stricter security protocols. However, security and privacy are different sides of the same coin. Google undoubtedly protects the personal data they collect because that data are the fuel for their engine of commerce. No data, no ad serving. Apple, on the other hand, either trashes the personal data or, at least, doesn’t use it to drive their business. I’ll vote for Apple’s approach.
Exactly. It’s one of Eric’s most effective forms of lying, because he knows that the sound bite & headline containing his claim propagates like a soliton through the Erie Canal, leaving all its wavelets behind; it becomes a meme, contextless, a statement of purity mistaken for fact.
Schmidt’s position on the Apple Board of Directors and the mutation of android into an IOS clone shortly thereafter puts up an effective shield against the wavelets causing that meme.
I have a hard time believing Schmidt will ever shake that bit of villainy.
I’m trying to start a new meme, “Bull Schmidt”.
yeah and he’s also trying to fudge that they are not looking through people’s emails because he claims ‘it’s not done by humans’ but robots (computer code) — which to him makes it ok . Write about an illness to a friend and you get targeted Pharma ads. I believe it’s scanning your photos with image recognition software as well.
Gmail disclosure statement:
“Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored.”
Eric Schidt is full of it.
September 10, 2014:
Hackers post millions of stolen Gmail passwords on Russian site
January 7, 2013:
99% of all mobile threats target Android devices
I’ll gladly continue with the headlines, upon request.
More joy of Google:
Google’s DoubleClick ad network abused once again in malvertising attacks
Google doesn’t even encrypt corporate email they use this bogus Sharding nonsense that splits the data into chunks and spreads it across their servers. Sounds secure I am sure till you ask them how big the chunks are. 64mb. Thats a lot of plain text email.
Isn’t that a bit like Satan saying he’s more religious than Christ?
Over the years, I never thought I’d despise a company more than Microsoft but Google (and especially this slimeball Schmidt) has made Microsoft look like a saint in comparison. Ballmer is at least funny in an unintentional manner. This Schmidt dickhead is outright repulsive.
Sounds like he’d make a great candidate for a country’s president.