Google's Executive Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt isn't a
huge fan of the NSA or its surveillance methods, it seems.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Schmidt declared: "It's
really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking
between the Google data centers, if true." His comment follows
recent reports of a nefarious tool crafted by the agency and the
UK's GCHQ that accessed Google and Yahoo data lairs without
permission. Schmidt also said that to "potentially violate
people's privacy, it's not OK," and that the broad public
scrutiny months of leaks has uncovered is unnecessary to find a
few bad eggs. Referring to claims that the NSA amassed phone
records of 320 million people to actually investigate more like
300, the Google exec commented: "That's just bad public
policy... and perhaps illegal." Not that the search giant has
any personal experience with illegal data collection, of course.
Google's Eric Schmidt slams NSA over 'outrageous' data center
snooping and privacy invasion