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There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
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Washington
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Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt
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