He's basically saying he overstated his claims in the previous article by conflating current implementation with how things were going to be indefinitely. As a

He's basically saying he overstated his claims in the previous article by conflating current implementation with how things were going to be indefinitely. As a writer and content-producer his whole notion of 'evil' seems to be tied to identity and attribution. Discussions on this page about privacy are independent of that. In fact there's two meanings of privacy even on this page: leaking your private data to your friends, and concerns about how much Google knows about you. I wish we could talk about these three issues separately, skipping increasingly-content-free words like 'evil' and 'privacy'.