Comment by gvb

Things that should not be doing are usually done in secret, so from that point of view, Eric Schmidt's saying is a truism. Unfortunately, it gets applied in the converse form, which is wrong: people, and especially governments, infer guilt from a desire for privacy (a politer term than "hiding").

This is explained very well in nfnaaron's post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983997