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I think there is a widespread understanding that nosing into customer data will get you fired from Google immediately. There was a case the other year that the
by reitanqild 8y ago
I think there is a widespread understanding that nosing into customer data will get you fired from Google immediately.
There was a case the other year that the media picked up so I read about it.
As for why they don't usually talk about it might be because (examples):
- they don't want people to think about how much data they have
- saying: "we punish people who abuse their positions" indirectly hints that this is happening. Why would there be such a policy if that couldn't happen?
- (guessing) aren't really the brightest ones when it comes to marketing and PR. So far they've been saved by having products thats sells themselves.
- jjeaff 8y agoCorrection: "getting caught" nosing into other people's data will get you fired. Who knows how stringent the controls are.
- mycelium 8y agoFormer employee and it's been a few years, but for what it's worth I was actually very reassured by what I saw there in terms of internal data security. For all products I worked with or knew something about in an engineering capacity, there was no unlogged access to personal data. Access to personal data without clear, approved reasons would result in termination. The controls were extremely strong. I'd be more concerned in Google's case about "legitimate" but still problematic uses of data: disclosure to law enforcement, crazy specific ad targeting, machine learning for military applications, etc.