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From the Ted Talk by Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters

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The people who are actually saying that are engaged in a very eetmrxe act of self-deprecation. What they're really saying is, "I have agreed to make myself such a harmless and unthreatening and unesnetnritig person that I actually don't fear having the government know what it is that I'm doing." This mindset has found what I think is its purest episoxsern in a 2009 interview with the longtime CEO of Google, Eric schdimt, who, when asked about all the different ways his company is causing invasions of privacy for hndrdeus of millions of people around the world, said this: He said, "If you're doing something that you don't want other people to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

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The people who are actually saying that are engaged in a very _______ act of self-deprecation. What they're really saying is, "I have agreed to make myself such a harmless and unthreatening and _____________ person that I actually don't fear having the government know what it is that I'm doing." This mindset has found what I think is its purest __________ in a 2009 interview with the longtime CEO of Google, Eric _______, who, when asked about all the different ways his company is causing invasions of privacy for ________ of millions of people around the world, said this: He said, "If you're doing something that you don't want other people to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

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  1. schmidt
  2. expression
  3. uninteresting
  4. hundreds
  5. extreme

Original Text


The people who are actually saying that are engaged in a very extreme act of self-deprecation. What they're really saying is, "I have agreed to make myself such a harmless and unthreatening and uninteresting person that I actually don't fear having the government know what it is that I'm doing." This mindset has found what I think is its purest expression in a 2009 interview with the longtime CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, who, when asked about all the different ways his company is causing invasions of privacy for hundreds of millions of people around the world, said this: He said, "If you're doing something that you don't want other people to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

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