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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by bitL on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:37PM (#19794346)
Long before Eric, the SUN's CEO (Eric's previous employer) made a remark that privacy is an illusion and we need to get over it:

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/

This stuff was going on for a long time, FAANG just perfected it.

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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by neotek on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:03AM (#19796015)
FANG maybe; Apple seems pretty keen on maintaining privacy as one of their primary differentiators.
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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by sjg007 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:03AM (#19796639)
There's privacy between people but not between people and corporation or people and the government.
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