These days, it seems like Google runs everything. From Google Desktop to Google Search to Google WiFi in some areas, the company is in a position to collect all sorts of data about its users. The fears of privacy advocates will not be put to rest any time soon, however. In a keynote address to the Mobile World Congress today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated bluntly:
…[W]e can literally know everything if we want to. What people are doing, what people care about, information that’s monitored, we can literally know it if we want to, and if people want us to know it.

Fortunately, Google isn’t in the habit yet of collecting and analyzing all our personal data. But in my opinion, we should be wary.

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The introduction of IDNs will certainly increase the number of Chinese Internet users, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a much more optimistic view of web adoption in the Asian country. According to him, cyberspace will be dominated by Chinese content within 5 years.

Though Western nations have had more than a decade to populate the Internet with content, China’s population of 1.3 billion gives it an unparalleled advantage in this area. Increasingly inexpensive computers along with Chinese-character URLs will cause exponential growth in China web usage.

What does this mean for us? Besides a crowded Internet, expect more sites to become available in Chinese soon.

Source | IDN Blog

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