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Have you ever seen a current Google employee clearly denounce Google's privacy practices? It seems they are very loud and keen to organize when it comes to issu
by dessant 6y ago
Have you ever seen a current Google employee clearly denounce Google's privacy practices? It seems they are very loud and keen to organize when it comes to issues that closely affect them, but the mass surveillance of the general population usually takes a back seat.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI believe it's a combination of two things: 1) Googlers have some internal insight into how the privacy practices mechanically work; that insight engenders trust. 2) Googlers who don't find a level of trust very quickly get turned off to what the company's mission is and take their high-paying skillset elsewhere. I mean, "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Gathering the information is implied right there in the mission statement. People who aren't comfortable with the ramifications of gathering and using lots of information seek employment elsewhere.
- randmeerkat 6y agoOr the person could work to change the mission. Look at what Satya Nadella did for Microsoft. If an employee doesn’t believe in a company’s direction they are totally within their right to try to effect change to shift the direction of the company.
- gerash 6y agoI know researchers who worked at Microsoft and moved to Google and ,at least during their time there, they said accessing even aggregated user data for research purposes meant jumping through a lot more hoops at Google but the outside image is often the opposite for some reason