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“After all the controversies Google has become entangled, the question people keep asking is – how can we ever begin to trust Google? I’ve always said private industry needs to take the lead in providing consumer choice and transparency before big government rushes in to regulate. But Google’s move to eradicate consumer choice all together across their various platforms raises additional questions about how the company’s monopoly power might hurt competition and how their action might unilaterally and unnecessarily invite even broader government regulations on everyone else.”, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, 1-26-12.

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"Google will remain a place where you can do anonymous searches. We're very committed to having you have control over the information we have about you. So, for example, if you want to continue to use Google and don't log in, and don't tell us who you are, that will continue to be true forever." Said Google in June 2011, reported by the WSJ 1-25-12 on Google’s new privacy policy.

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"Google now watches consumers practically everywhere they go on the Web—and in real life, when using a mobile phone," said "No single entity should be trusted with this much sensitive data." Christopher Soghoian, an independent privacy and security researcher in Washington D.C. in WSJ 1-25-12.

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“So why are we calling this evil? Because Google changed the rules that it defined itself. Google built its reputation, and its multi-billion dollar business, on the promise of its "don't be evil" philosophy. That's been largely interpreted as meaning that Google will always put its users first, an interpretation that Google has cultivated and encouraged. Google has built a very lucrative company on the reputation of user respect. It has made billions of dollars in that effort to get us all under its feel-good tent. And now it's pulling the stakes out, collapsing it.” Mat Honan, Gizmodo, 1-24-12.

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“My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.” Larry Page 1-19-12, Fortune Interview.

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"Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying." Rupert Murdoch tweet on Google’s opposition to anti-piracy legislation 1-15-12.

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“Schmidt said Google is seeing 700,000 Android activations a day, totaling more than 200 million Android phones in the world. “Just do a little math with the numbers I just told you, and Android is on a billion-unit plan.” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, All Things Digital, 1-11-12

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"Google respects the law. We do not steal." Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, 12-16-11 in The Atlantic.

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“Having prosecuted the Microsoft case, its seems to me that Google, as a monopoly, is engaging in the same tactics to keep its dominant position as Microsoft was engaging in. Those are the same tactics that got Microsoft in trouble,” commented Professor Miller in response to Google’s conduct. In Berkley Law, 10-20-11

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“When we’re done, Google is going to come across as a beautifully integrated set of services,” Google Sr. VP Vic Gundotra said about Google+ to the New York Times, 10-21-11.

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