Eric Schmidt says encryption will help Google crack Chinese
censorship and stop the NSA
By Rich McCormick on January 24, 2014 02:08 am Email
Eric Schmidt thinks encryption is the answer to
many of the internefs problems. Google's executive
chairman said last November that "encrypting everything"
could "end government censorship in a decade." Now
Schmidt says that in that same decade, encryption could
"open up countries with strict censorship laws," giving their
people "a voice."
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Schmidt said that Google was attempting to strengthen its
encryption so the world's governments "won't be able to
penetrate it" and obtain private data. Those efforts, Schmidt
said, would create particular problems for "governments like
China's," which he thought responsible for "80 to 85 percent
of the world's industrial espionage." The Google chairman
also said he saw the eventual relaxation of Chinese
censorship over time as the number of people using social
media in the country continued to grow.
Schmidt suggested the debate over the NSA
surveillance scandal was good for the world, but also
chastised the US government, saying "because you can do
this monitoring does not mean you should do this
monitoring." He was also asked his reaction to comments
made by Microsoft that suggested non-US customers would
be able to store their data outside of the US. "I don't
understand it," was his reply.
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