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Julian Assange Does Interview in Hologram Form

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Julian Assange continues to reside in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but he found time to make a public appearance for an interview about his book When Google Met WikiLeaks. How, you ask? Well, he appeared by hologram.

Thats right, appearing as a hologram is now something that 2Pac, Michael Jackson, and Julian Assange have in common.

Assanges book details a conversation he had back in 2011 with Google chairman Eric Schmidt. In the interview, Assange says that while Google might claim to be a playroom of ideas unlike other companies, they are just a normal company. Albeit one that wants to collect as much information about the world as possible, store it, index it, make predictive models about peoples interests, and use that to sell advertising.

And yes, he made these salient points as a hologram.

You can watch two clips from the event here (the first one ends with a pretty awkward high-five):

[h/t Daily Intelligencer] [image via screengrab]

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Google boss Schmidt slams ‘paranoid’ Assange over Govt ties accusations

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Google's Eric Schmidt is infuriated with Julian Assange allegations that Google is tied to the US government when it comes to the openness of the Internet, which the WikiLeaks founder expressed in his new book 'When Google met WikiLeaks.'

On the eve of the book launch, Schmidt called WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange 'very paranoid.'

The book recalls an encounter when Assange met Schmidt in 2011. Assange has also said Google is basically a privatized National Security Agency, CNET reported.

However, Schmidt adamantly denied Assange's allegations.

Schmidt said that Assange is very paranoid about things. Google never collaborated with the NSA and in fact, Google has fought very hard against what they did.

He added that they have taken all of their data, all of their exchanges, and fully encrypted them so no one can get them, especially the government.

Assange has been huddled in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for more than two years, as he waits for diplomatic asylum.

He's avoiding extradition to Sweden over alleged sexual offenses, which he has denied. Assange also has said he fears extradition to the US, where he believes he could be tried for espionage crimes for his involvement in the release of classified documents.

Schmidt also blasted Assange's living arrangement, saying that - Assange, of course, is writing from the, shall we say, luxury lodgings of the local embassy in London.

(Posted on 24-09-2014)

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The Julian Assange Interview on Imaginary Lines (Preview) – Video

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The Julian Assange Interview on Imaginary Lines (Preview)
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discusses the US, NATO, and Google on teleSUR #39;s Imaginary Lines, Monday, September 29, at 2PM (EST) on http://www.telesurtv.net/english http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/web...

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Google’s Eric Schmidt Calls Julian Assange ‘Paranoid’ and …

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Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, spent more than a decade as the Google's CEO, taking the company from a startup to a global tech giant. He spoke with ABC News' Real Biz about disagreements with Apple CEO Tim Cook, this whole privacy thing and why he thinks WikiLeaks' Julian Assange is "paranoid."

Schmidt teamed up with former product chief Jonathan Rosenberg to pen a book called "How Google Works," released today by Grand Central Publishing. Rosenberg joined Google in 2002 and managed search, ads, Gmail, Android, apps, and Chrome and today is an adviser to Google's co-founder Larry Page.

Google has won the top spot in Fortune's list of "Best Companies" five times, and is one of the stalwarts of Silicon Valley innovation, with Google Glass, driverless cars and, of course, those money-making ads.

Schmidt and Rosenberg's book focuses on the management of Google, revealing Schmidt's leadership secrets of how to get everyone on your management team to agree on a big decision.

In an interview with ABC News chief business correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, Schmidt said: "You need buy-in and you need ownership for whatever the corporation is going to do," to avoid the "bobble head" effect in which "everybody goes yes and then the moment they leave the table, they go and they fight against you."

"Start your staff meeting by asking everyone their opinion and making sure everyone speaks," he suggested.

Instead of beginning the meeting with the most senior head honcho in the room dominating the conversation, he said it's important to get a discussion going from all of the people involved in the meeting to make sure the best idea comes out as fast as it can and then "set a deadline."

The Mountain View, California-based company is not only famous for its decision making, it's also known for its sneaker-wearing culture of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and their motto, "Don't be evil." But Schmidt's book reminds readers that Google is indeed a mammoth, global corporation.

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VIDEO: Assange Talks of Secret Meeting with Google CEO Eric Schmidt (Russia Today) – Video

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Wikileaks Julian Assange talks about a meeting he had with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, how Google uses its search engine and gears its business model to actively support imperialist U.S. policies,...

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Assange extradition to US ‘far-fetched’

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Swedish prosecutors say it is "far-fetched" to think that fugitive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could be extradited to the United States if he returned to Sweden.

It was the first time that Swedish prosecutors, who want to question the 43-year-old Australian on allegations of rape and sexual molestation, commented on the likelihood that he could be sent to the US.

Assange refuses to return to Sweden and has been holed up since 2012 in London in the embassy of Ecuador, which granted him political asylum the same year.

The US has not yet requested extradition of Assange since Sweden issued a European arrest warrant in November 2010, rendering the whole question hypothetical, the prosecutors said.

"It would seem to be a far-fetched idea that the United States would have waited since 2010 to initiate extradition proceedings with the intention of sending their request to Sweden rather than to Britain," they said.

"Even considering that this would be permitted under Swedish law, a decision to extradite him to the United States from Sweden would also require the agreement of Britain."

They made the statement in a written reply to arguments made by Assange's lawyers, who have appealed a decision by a Swedish court in July this year to uphold the arrest warrant against him.

The Court of Appeal in Stockholm is expected to announce its decision within the next week.

If it scraps the European arrest warrant against Assange, it could mean that he would be able to leave the Ecuadoran embassy.

The arrest warrant was issued to enable Swedish prosecutors to question Assange about charges brought against him by two women in their 30s. Assange denies the accusations.

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