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“If we could wave a magic wand and not be subject to US law, that would be great;” said Google Co-founder Sergey Brin to The Guardian, 4-15-12

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“We worked in good faith to answer the F.C.C.’s questions throughout the inquiry, and we’re pleased that they have concluded that we complied with the law.” Google spokesperson’s response to announcement of a $25,000 FCC fine for “deliberately impeding and delaying” the FCC’s investigation of whether or not Google broke wiretapping laws in the Google WiSpy Affair.” Quoted in the New York Times, 4-15-12

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“…tell Google to stop selling slaves." Phil Cenedella, Executive Director, National Association of Human Trafficking Victim Advocates 4-10-12; East County Magazine

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YouTube’s copyright infringement was like “owning a pawnshop that sells only stolen goods.” Theodore B. Olsen Viacom’s lead attorney in the Viacom vs. Google case, in the Daily Journal 4-6-12

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"They were really out of control…" "Google's problem is that it tends to be not very empathetic." "Historically, they do something first and then think of the human implications of what they've done later, and that particular problem seems to have accelerated under Page." … "Google, at some point, is going to have to grow up and realize that you're delivering a product to people." "If they don't, they're going to have a nasty time with governments. Governments might not be efficient, but eventually they're going to step in and protect the populace." Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times

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“Page "can't just say 'Our priority is just getting the product right and everything will fall into place,'" "Google is a big company and it scares a lot of people. Part of Larry's job is to be a 'de-scarifier.'" Stephen Levy, author of “In The Plex”, in AP/USAToday story, 4-6-12

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“You should never again believe any privacy promise Google makes." Ryan Singel Christopher Soghoian, Privacy Researcher, in “On Profiling and Google’s Big double-cross; Wired 4-4-12

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“I think what we’re about is we’re about using large-scale kind of technology: technology advancements to help people, to make people’s lives better, to make community better. Obviously, our mission was organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful, and I think we probably missed more of the people part of that than we should have.” Google CEO Larry Page, in Business Week – Bloomberg; 4-3-12

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“Nobody wants to be tracked.” … “ I ran a small survey using +Google Consumer Surveys to get an idea how people feel about being tracked online. I asked: "Do you think a business should be able to anonymously track your actions on their website?" 84.7% said NO. I was a bit surprised! I did not think the percentage would be that high. It also tells me that there is strong opposition to all tracking, even anonymous tracking. There were no demographic segments, based on location, age or income that agreed. Nobody wants to be tracked.” Justin Cutroni, Analytics Advocate at Google; 4-2-12

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“AdMob has helped Google make a killing in mobile ads” , David Lawlee, Google’s Head of Acquisitions Department, in Slate.com, 3-29-12

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