Döpfner argued that there had been a fundamental shift in opinion about Google among European citizens since Edward Snowden had revealed close connections between big US online providers and the US intelligence agencies last year. No one knows as much about its customers as Google. Even private and business emails are read by Gmail and analysed if the need exists, he said. He described the view, which he attributed to both Schmidt and Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg in response to the NSA revelations, that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, as disconcerting. It stands for a mental attitude and a view of the world that is common in totalitarian regimes, not in free societies. The head of the Stasi or any other secret service in a dictatorship could have come out with a line like that.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:23:35 +0000
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