Google: We don't spy on you

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt pushed back against criticism that his company is spying on its users. “I hear this perception that somehow we’re not playing by the rules of modern society,” he said. "I think it’s wrong." “Google has worked very hard to improve your privacy," he added. "We do need to retain a certain amount of information for our systems to work, but unlike many others we make it very easy for you to delete that, mask it or avoid it entirely." “I today believe that if you have important information, the safest place to keep it is in Google,” he said, “and I can assure the safest place to not keep it is anywhere else.”