Privacy Is What We Do

Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed antitrust concerns about his company at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “With our scale rightfully comes scrutiny,” he acknowledged, and said the hundreds of startups Google invests in every year support entrepreneurs and incubators around the world. Those startups also provide a chance to work on important technologies like AI and quantum computing, Pichai explained, but he insisted that the company wants to scale up in a way that works for society. “That’s the real test, and society has to judge whether what we are doing is beneficial. We are trying to do important things for our users.” He also said Google wants to earn people’s trust by giving them control, transparency and choice. “Privacy is at the heart of what we do,” he said. He promised that in time the company would do better in respect to privacy, and claimed that artificial intelligence is a technology that will help it do better.”We can use AI to actually preserve privacy,” he said.