5 comments from Google's CEO on privacy

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting a lot of attention lately, not so much for the company's ubiquitous search engine or any of the company's other products. It's more for what Schmidt has been saying about privacy.

To be clear, privacy is a heady and heated issue these days. Social networking site Facebook has found itself repeatedly in privacy hot water this year. And Google isn't fairing much better with its Street View service's drawing negative attention for posting images of people's homes for the world to see.

But Google's PR department may be wringing their hands more over what Schmidt is saying about privacy than about anything else. On Monday, for instance, Schmidt raised the latest privacy hubbub by saying that if people don't like having their homes photographed for Google Street View for the world to see, they can "just move." He made the comment during an interview on CNN .