People are treating Google like their most trusted friend.

Should they be?

Well, I think judgment matters.

Eric Schmidt is Google's CEO.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know,

maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

But if you really need that kind of privacy,

the reality is that search engines can include Google.

Do retain this information for some time.

And it's important that, for example,

that we are all subject to the United States of nature,

that it is possible that that information

could be made available to the authorities.

So they very rapidly started to branch out into other areas.

They were getting a lot of information from people using the search engine.

But if people went directly to a website,

uh-oh, that's bad, because now Google doesn't know that.

So they developed a browser,

which is now the most widely used browser in the world, Chrome.

By getting people to use Chrome,

they were able now to collect information about every single website

you visited, whether or not you were using their search engine.

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