Google to Teens: Just Change Your Name

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has an interesting solution for teens who may regret posting that questionable picture on Facebook or tweeting about their bad romance: just change your name once you hit adulthood.

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Schmidt predicts that all young people will one day be ‘entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood’ to protect their youthful indiscretions forever embedded on social media sites.

Expanding on Schmidt’s discussion of the contentious privacy issue, the Journal reports:

“Google takes a similarly generous view of its own motives…Mr.

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