Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has lmabasted National Security Agency (NSA) following reports that the agency has been spying on Google data centers, calling NSA's act of spying "outrageous" and potentially "illegal."
"It's really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking between the Google data centers, if that's true. The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its mission and potentially violate people's privacy, it's not OK," Schmidt said.
"The Snowden revelations have assisted us in understanding that it's perfectly possible that there are more revelations to come."
Schmidt also mentioned that the company had already registered complaints with NSA, President Barack Obama and members of the U.S. Congress.
"The NSA allegedly collected the phone records of 320 million people in order to identify roughly 300 people who might be a risk. It's just bad public policy...and perhaps illegal," he said.
Speaking about the privacy and security, Schmidt said the right balance between them starts with determining the appropriate level of oversight.
"There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them," he added.
On a separate note, Schmidt said the Chinese government would need to change its heavy handedness on censorship if they wanted to resume China-based search engine by Google.
"China's censorship regime has gotten significantly worse since we left so something would have to change before we come back," he said.
Last year Google had to reroute its China-based search engine to Hong Kong over censorship concerns.
Ever since Schmidt took his role as executive chairman at Google, he has been advocating free speech on Internet. Last January, he travelled to North Korea to convince the government that it was in their favor to open a bit.
"They [North Korea] need the Internet for electronic commerce and for business and they are certainly grappling with issues of food availability, education and social unrest," he said.
Schmidt plans to visit Cuba next.
