He caught a lot of shit for it, but Eric Schmidt had a tendency to say unpopular things that were also true. When he said that "If you have something you don't

He caught a lot of shit for it, but Eric Schmidt had a tendency to say unpopular things that were also true. When he said that "If you have something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," The context of the conversation was online activity. And in that context he's not wrong at all. For all the privacy and identity obfuscation tools we have, the Internet is one big paper trail where you should assume that someone is auditing everything you do, legally or illegally. There are too many computers in the loop serving your requests and responses for it to be reasonable to assume otherwise.