HOW EUROPE VIEWS GOOGLE: Quotes you wont see on ABC news: “We are afraid of Google,” wrote Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel Springer, a German publishing giant, in an open letter to Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman. “I must state this very clearly and frankly, because few of my colleagues dare do so publicly.” “They’re no longer seen as innocent geeks,” said Thomas Tindemans, the chief executive of Hill & Knowlton Strategies in Brussels. Google was an interesting start-up at the beginning and a helpful website, but that has dramatically changed,” said Jan Philipp Albrecht, a member of the Green Party who has been the leading legislator shepherding through the legislation. “ “Many users were lured by the convenience and comfort of the services,” he said, but he added that the revelations by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden revealed that Google was part of a “massive breach of our security, of our data and of our sovereignty.” nytimes/2014/09/09/technology/google-is-target-of-european-backlash-on-us-tech-dominance.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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