Google and Privacy....

Few days ago, Mr. CEOofGoogle, Eric Schmidt told CNBC, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
I like, "everyone else," take issue with that statement. But that is not what compelled me to write this post. Some comments on the news website in response to the post can be paraphrased as "its the sad truth and you can not expect privacy when you put your data on the Internet as it becomes public domain."
Well, privacy, like freedom, is a basic human right. Internet by nature does not make your data public domain. Its the scarce availability of privacy ensuring services that do it. Just because you park your car on the street, which by the way, is not a part of your property, does not make it any less yours. So when it is stolen at night, you don't say, "oh! well. It was parked on the street. It was going to happen one day or another." That is not how it works. Your data, like your car, is your property. Unless you park it close enough to a sign that says, "No Parking. Will be towed," you don't worry about your immediate rights and ownership of the car.
Many of us, until the moment Mr. Schmidt made that comment, looked up to Google for innovations that would do good to humanity. Google is a publicly traded organization that has to answer to its stakeholders. Its probably no longer profitable for Google to work for the greater interest of humanity, I suppose.
Yet, that doesn't change the fact the privacy is a basic human right.
We can not just accept what is not ought to be. If Indians (I am an India) had said, "well, we ought to be free, but what can we do? we are not," we would still be an oppressed British Colony.