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There are at least 10x the number of employees to executives who have access to your email contents and browsing history. Using the worst %3 of individuals as a
by motohagiography 7y ago
There are at least 10x the number of employees to executives who have access to your email contents and browsing history. Using the worst %3 of individuals as a baseline, the executives are the people you have the very least to worry about.
- jjeaff 7y agoAccess to individual personal data is only one small point of power. Billions of dollars for lobbying and the ability to set policy and make sweeping changes is a much larger power.
- motohagiography 7y agoElections at all levels are won and lost on candidate email dumps and internet activity. Blackmail always works better than lobbying, and this is what protecting the worst actors will enable.
- wrsh07 7y agoIf you somehow don't think there will be accountability for an individual employee who misuses PII, we are living in two very different worlds. You must understand that even a single employee doing this is such a breech of brand trust that Google would deal with it swiftly. OTOH, it is quite clear to me that Google executives are allowed to make virtually unchecked and wide-reaching decisions that impact many and have negative consequences. A simple, unambiguous example is "the YouTube recommendation algorithm is bad for kids and seems to cause their exploitation" [1] To be very clear: executives have the power to change the recommendation engine. To demonetize children's YouTube videos. They choose to be wreckless specifically out of greed. [1] https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...