Schmidt discovered his own home phone number through Google, but said he was able to remove it by filling out Google's standard form. But Google shouldn't be blamed when that sort of private information crops up, he said.
"Google does not discover things that are not public," said Schmidt, answering questions on the stage of the Gartner Symposium in San Francisco on Wednesday. "Many people are disturbed to find their home phone number. But we found it because it was a public piece of information."
In response to a question about how Google treats consumer privacy, he tried to illustrate how the company's don't-be-evil philosophy trumps technology by recounting a meeting he attended with company co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin. In it, a business executive suggested a particular change at Google.
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