Obama adviser Eric Schmidt tries to hide donations at Google

Obama adviser Eric Schmidt tries to hide donations at Google

Google Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt tried to use his influence within Google to gain privacy from searches about him, specifically trying to hide his political donations through secret "whitelists" whose existence has only recently been admitted.

This revelation from Steven Levy's new book In the Plex is not surprising given Schmidt's high level of political activity, advising candidate Barack Obama on tech issues, and now rumored as a candidate to be the next Secretary of Commerce. He's in deep politically, and probably doesn't want that to hurt him personally or in business.

But given Schmidt's history, he's now exposed as a massive hypocrite.

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