Nicholas Carr wrote in Los Angeles Review of Books: Seeking to keep the true nature of its work from the public, it adopted what its CEO at the time, Eric Schm

Nicholas Carr wrote in Los Angeles Review of Books: Seeking to keep the true nature of its work from the public, it adopted what its CEO at the time, Eric Schmidt, called a “hiding strategy” — a kind of corporate omerta backed up by stringent nondisclosure agreements. Page and Brin further shielded themselves from outside oversight by establishing a stock structure that guaranteed their power could never be challenged, neither by investors nor by directors. As one Google executive quoted by Zuboff put it, “Larry [Page] opposed any path that would reveal our technological secrets or stir the privacy pot and endanger our ability to gather data.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-ho...