The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

Page defended Google’s unprecedented information power with an extraordinary statement suggesting that people should trust Google more than democratic institutions: “In general, having the data present in companies like Google is better than having it in the government with no due process to get that data, because we obviously care about our reputation. I’m not sure the government cares about that as much.”94 Speaking to the company’s shareholders the day after the court’s ruling, Eric Schmidt characterized the decision as a “balance that was struck wrong” in the “collision between a right to be forgotten and a right to know.”95