What happens when two of the biggest names in world of
privacy come together to break bread and discuss just what exactly makes
the world go round? You’d like to be a fly on the wall in that room,
wouldn’t you? Luckily the beans have been spilled on the extraordinary
meeting between Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange and Executive Chairman
of Google, Eric Schmidt.
Schmidt met with Assange in 2011, while Assange was under
house arrest no less, to discuss a number of issues for his book ‘The
New Digital Age,’ which is being released on Tuesday. Co-writer Jared
Cohen was also in attendance in the five hour long interview which was
copious in detail of exactly how Wikileaks has grown into the largest
whistleblower organizations in the world.
Schmidt was clearly very interested in exactly how
Wikileaks operates and more specifically how it manages to keep data
transfers and whistleblowers’ information and identities secure. Assange
also referenced his keen interest in creating a distributed publishing
network just as Bitcoin is a distributed currency.
Assange is a clear believer that if anyone is going to
change what he believes to be a ‘crippled network’ of information, it
would be the younger generation. He also asserted his belief that
censorship is valuable. Assange claimed “It is always an opportunity,
because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is
so weak that you have got to care about what people think.”
Assange, perhaps looking for a reward for giving Schmidt an
interview, went fishing for leaks from Google which Schmidt politely
declined. Schmidt – also not one for lack of trying – asked Assange on
his take on Wikileaks being a threat to national security which Assange
shrugged off as merely being a balance of risks.
With all the ruckus
being made about privacy and where your data is headed, Schmidt is
clearly interested in maintaining a balance between privacy, security
and monetization. To see the full transcript of the meeting between
Schmidt and Assange, click here.
Do you think we should be worried about where our data is headed? Let us know in the comments.
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