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Google fights against subpoenas and warrants all the time but sometimes they lose. At that point they have to comply or be held in contempt and I can't really b

by arkem 9y ago

Google fights against subpoenas and warrants all the time but sometimes they lose. At that point they have to comply or be held in contempt and I can't really blame Google for complying in that situation. With many thousands of engineers it is totally possible for bad actors to have infiltrated Google. It's one of the reasons why there are such strict protocols for accessing customer data or production hardware. The idea is that by default no one has access to anything and that all accesses to data and production hardware are logged and audited. I'm sure there're still opportunities for a rogue employee to do something bad but Google are way better at protecting access to their customer's data than many of the companies I've seen.

evanlivingston 9y ago
Do they fight against all subpoenas equally or do they make calls about which to fight and which to comply with? If they choose to comply with some, how do they make that call?
CaptSpify 9y ago
> Google fights against subpoenas and warrants all the time but sometimes they lose. At that point they have to comply or be held in contempt and I can't really blame Google for complying in that situation. I can and do blame them without hesitation. They could choose not to store that data, or make it zero-knowledge-based, yet they choose not to. Just because they've been compelled to hand over data via legal means does not excuse them for doing the wrong/insecure thing in the first place.