Schmidt: Google gets 'right up to the creepy line'

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday that his company has a habit of approaching the "creepy" line.

"There is what I call the creepy line," he said at an event at the Newseum. "The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."

Schmidt looked amused in response to an offbeat question about whether Google plans to implant technology in people's brains as the next step after making strides on the mobile Internet.

"I would argue that implanting something in your brain is beyond the creepy line," he quipped, "at least for the moment, until the technology gets better."

He added, again in a lighthearted way, that Google is such a bottom-up company that he would not be aware if such a technology were in development.

"As far as I know, we do not have a medical lab working on implants," he said. "As far as I know. I will check after this."