It is quite clear that this article - and indeed the Mozilla director - missed the point of Eric Schmidt's comments. "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place", and references to the USA PATRIOT act and authorities, should make it clear to anyone who values intelligence over scare-mongering that he is referring to illegal activity that would be relevant to these authorities. Perhaps I should expand the USA PATRIOT act, 'Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001'. Key Word: Terrorism. Now, Eric Schmidt has quite clearly said in this clip that if you make information available online that is relevant to the USA PATRIOT act then this may be retained by Google and passed to the authorities, and yet Asa Dotzler - and this article - and indeed some of the subsequent comment posters - have someone come to conclusion that this is somehow an affront to the privacy of every day google users. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. As far as I'm concerned, search engines should have a responsibility to collate information of this nature. If you're doing nothing wrong, then Eric's comments, and googles policy, should be completely irrelevant to you.