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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026

It's the same Zuckerberg who flipped out when his sister accidentally posted a family photo to her public Facebook feed and it spread around the internet: abc7news.com/archive/8933... And it's the same Zuckerberg who gave us pervert glasses (to opt out, just don't have a face).

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Private picture of Mark Zuckerberg's family leaked | ABC7 San Francisco | abc7news.com

Even Mark Zuckerberg's family can get tripped up by Facebook's privacy settings.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026

Silicon Valley's most ardent privacy invaders are also the most ardent defenders of their *own* privacy. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt liked to say, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place": www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Dismisses the Importance of Privacy

Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt's dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users' privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC's ...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026

But when Cnet ran an article summarizing details of Schmidt's personal life that could be discovered *by searching Google*, he ordered a company-wide blacklist of Cnet reporters, which lasted for years: www.cnet.com/tech/tech-in...

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Eric Schmidt, who led Google's transformation into a tech giant, has left the company - CNET

Schmidt exited as a technical advisor at Google parent company Alphabet in February.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, and they were always telling us at Google never to write anything in an email you wouldn't want printed in the NYT someday. Speak in person instead. So it's not what you're doing but whether it can be traced back to you.

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