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Young will have to change names to escape 'cyber past' warns Google's Eric Schmidt
Telegraph ^
| August 18, 2010
| Murray Wardrop
Posted on 08/18/2010 7:36:46 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites such as Facebook.
"I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal.
In an interview Mr Schmidt said he believed that every young person will one day be allowed to change their name to distance themselves from embarrasssing photographs and material stored on their friends' social media sites.
The 55-year-old also predicted that in the future, Google will know so much about its users that the search engine will be able to help them plan their lives.
Using profiles of it customers and tracking their locations through their smart phones, it will be able to provide live updates on their surroundings and inform them of tasks they need to do.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ericschmidt; facebook; google; internet; privacy
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To: Second Amendment First
young people should be entitled to change their identity
Seems reasonable. It worked for this guy.
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:39:14 AM PDT
by
newheart
(History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
To: Second Amendment First
what's the old saying? something like, “when you make your bed you have to sleep in it!”
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:40:43 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: newheart
Great graphic. Can you make his face black?
To: Second Amendment First
Why do kids need to text on cell phones or be on Facebook or similar pages? They must have seen bad stuff happen to others or heard about it.
To: Second Amendment First
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.” - Will Rogers.
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:45:44 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Is Barack the Kenyan word for barracks? You know, a place where many men are lodged?)
To: thethirddegree
It’s as black as he is. Compare with a normal Alfred E. pic.
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:45:45 AM PDT
by
newheart
(History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
To: thethirddegree
“Great graphic. Can you make his face black?”
Or like a regular coffee with not too much milk?
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:46:48 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Is Barack the Kenyan word for barracks? You know, a place where many men are lodged?)
To: Second Amendment First
In the United States, people can already change their names when they reach adulthood. Go to the courthouse, pay a fee ...
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:47:54 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Maven of alcoholic beverage bargains!)
To: Second Amendment First
Or you could just not screw up your life in the first place. Almost every problem today is caused by people wanting to be excused from the consequences of making bad choices. Unprotected sex - get an abortion. Drop out of high school and render yourself unemployable - go on welfare. Get fat and render yourself uninsurable - pass laws to require other people to pay for your medical care. Buy a house you can't afford - the government will bail you out. GM builds an electric car that they can't sell at the cost of manufacture, the government forces taxpayers to subsidize them.
In the last 24 hours on FR threads i have seen a person refuse to relocate to save his job and then complain when he can't find another one a year later. Another Freeper attacked anyone who dared criticize a man who lived in government subsidized housing for the last 74 years then complained when he was throw out for someone that the government deemed to be more needy. He could have bought the house years ago at 50% market but decided not to.
When will we demand that people take responsibility for the bad choices that they make?
/stepping down off soap box now.
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:50:03 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: newheart
On second thought it’s easier to change Google and FB. Give them 6 months to enable people to remove their stuff or face a $1000 fine per day, per user.
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:51:41 AM PDT
by
mainsail that
("A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights" - Napoleon Bonaparte)
To: mainsail that
On second thought its easier to change Google and FB. It's not Google or FB, it's all that permanent record stored on servers throughout the world.
If Google wasn't the search engine there would be some other search engine to find it.
Changing identity isn't a solution either since I suspect it would eventually be easy to connect new ID with old ID.
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posted on
08/18/2010 7:58:16 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
(The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
To: Second Amendment First
Great! Everyone can be a Wraith.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:00:16 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Tribune7; All
I was contacted a few years ago by a young woman who was the bass player in a local band. I had made mention of her a few months earlier as “This really hot bass player for _____ who is playing in New Haven”
She then applied for an interview, and her interviewer did an internet search on her: Asking her to defend their google results of her name. She contacted me with several questions, posed by her:
“How do you know me?”
“What do you mean by what you said?”
And I immediately became very interested. She had actually lost the job because of similar comments, and photos of her giving the devil sign at some shows and appearances.
A name change won’t work. I’m thinking of changing my own name (Legally) when it comes time for me to move (We’ll see how November turns out)
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:02:14 AM PDT
by
Celerity
To: Second Amendment First
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:02:29 AM PDT
by
MIchaelTArchangel
(Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
To: thethirddegree
Your wish is granted. You have two left.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:02:41 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Tribune7
” If Google wasn’t the search engine there would be some other search engine to find it.”
You mean in some rogue country like China or Russia? Because the Western world will eventually HAVE to do it. Google, FB and the likes are the only ones to be able to do it for now, since it takes some effort. A wikileaks type can’t do it, it takes years to gather and keep that info.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:10:27 AM PDT
by
mainsail that
("A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights" - Napoleon Bonaparte)
To: Second Amendment First
Maybe if parents weren’t so derelict in their responsibilities, their children would not spend years as such complete losers doing stupid things. The ‘dump-em-in-school/warehouse/daycare’ crowd has only themselves to blame for this ‘problem.’
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:20:29 AM PDT
by
Liberty1970
(http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lydiablievernicht)
To: Second Amendment First
"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."Eric Schmidt is one of the biggest douches on the planet....
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posted on
08/18/2010 9:04:00 PM PDT
by
freebilly
(No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
To: Vendome
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