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Officially, the penalty for leaking is termination. I cannot imagine anyone who'd risk that.

• ocdtrekkie 8y ago
  There's been a large number of leakers at Google over the last year, so there's definitely people who find Google's misdeeds worth publicizing, even at personal risk. And that's on both sides of the political spectrum. As I mentioned, several conservative Googlers have already talked about internal matters with Breitbart. Damore's memo was an internal-only document that was leaked on the liberal side. There were leaks about Project Maven and the censorship program Google's developing for China. Though I would have to wonder how much easier this leak would be to catch. Google would "merely" need to identify who has somewhat-recently accessed this video file, and as an older recording, the number of viewers has certainly tapered off significantly. To be honest, I'm seriously curious, are you saying your employment with Google is more important than what you think is right or good? While personally, I wouldn't leak from an employer I felt was doing bad things, I also wouldn't need to be terminated: I'd walk out the door.
• cmrdporcupine 8y ago
  I can -- leaks seem to be becoming the norm rather than the exception. The company has seemingly gotten too large for the remarkably open culture we had when I joined. As a Canadian I don't have a strong opinion on the content of this video, though I remember the event. But I do have a strong opinion about leaks/leakers. It's not that I want what we do to be 'secret' -- it's that I want an internal work culture that is open and I want to know what's going on across the company and have issues discussed out in the open. Finally, no I am not surprised people leak even with risk of termination. There's lots of jobs in the valley for people to switch to.