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There are a lot of mouths to keep shut on the inside. If anyone responsible for building the fake delete tool spoke out, Google would be in trouble.

• Nextgrid 7y ago
  If people couldn’t be unethical at scale then Facebook wouldn’t exist at all and yet it does, so I’m sure the same would be possible at Google.
  • TeMPOraL 7y ago
    That's different. People can easily be unethical at scale when incentives align. What they almost never can be is coordinated at scale against the individual incentives - whether for good or bad.
    • kkarakk 7y ago
      Also maintaining that deleted data is an issue, can't just magically move it to your datacenter in the mountains. someone will notice the movement of data even if it's automated. i suspect google just extracts as much data as possible from the photo, maybe trains an algo or two with the metadata and then deletes