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I’d argue both things are a concern. Corporo-government overreach is a concern for obvious reasons. But it’s also concerning that any individual rogue employe
by TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
I’d argue both things are a concern.
Corporo-government overreach is a concern for obvious reasons.
But it’s also concerning that any individual rogue employee could have malicious intent toward you for no other reason than you have something you might not want publicly known.
- meruru 7y agoSure, but one is comparatively minor vs the biggest threat to democracy and human freedom.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoThat's a good point. It could be argued that, for a person being blackmailed right now, one is a very real present threat, while the other is a hypothetical future. Fortunately there are enough of us to go round, so we can collectively advocate for protections against both possibilities.
- nostrademons 7y agoOutside of certain highly-privilege departments like high-level SREs (because their job description requires them to have root access on the boxes), individual rogue employees do not have this power. There are various access controls that prevent individual engineers from looking up data by PII, other than their own corporate GMail account or accounts they've been specifically authorized to look into by the account holder (usually for customer support reasons). In general engineers are only running aggregate analysis on a large number of anonymized records, and the logging & user info services enforce this. Like I said, individual people are not interesting to Google.