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Legal issues aside (these can be resolved), if that's really true then Google's shareholders should consider replacing the board, as they are passing up a treme

• noibl 16y ago
  Not a direct response -- I wanted to reply to the parent which was just deleted. It mentioned 'legal and ethical reasons'. An obvious legal problem would seem to be demonstrating the segregation of public data from private data under Google's management. Wouldn't they need to submit to some kind of external auditing to prove that only public data was being used for financial analysis? Not going to happen. I don't think there's a real ethical problem so much as a PR risk of the kind that Google already has to deal with: people are suspicious that their private Google-hosted data is being scrutinised for dubious reasons.